If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.