Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

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

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

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.