In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

I certainly identify myself as a feminist.