The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.