What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.