What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

How can one live without hope and longing?

I never photograph reality.

Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

You can never out-give God.

I’ll never know if it was figuratively or literally when he said I drove him crazy.

Cool is not an attitude - It's a state of mind

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

I'd rather walk than drive a car. In Vancouver, where I am from, you can get to just about anywhere you need to go on foot. Even if it's raining I'll go out for a stroll. I just love that.

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.