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

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

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.

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

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

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.