If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.