My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future

There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.

I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.