If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

I always said 'yes' to everything.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.