“Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old mans face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a buildi...”

“A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography i...”

“Photographers tend not to photograph what they cant see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise were going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms an...”

“Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.”

“Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.”

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.”

“Mediante la fotografa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicin fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusin de mi pasado.”

“Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ”

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, a...”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”

“You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.”

“I'm pretty into computers. I used to be a lot more into it when I was younger.”

“I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.”