Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself.

I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.

Things just enter reality through photographs.

My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.

I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

A large movement covers a small movement

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.