Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.