Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.