i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.

Hillary's [Clinton] not a fighter.

You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

Scream" was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.