The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

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

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 only tie up woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up. Tying up a woman becomes an embrace.

Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.

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.

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