You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

Your decisions will determine your destination. “No decision” is the decision to be just how you were at where you had been.

I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.