Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.