"I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer."
"To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep."
"I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it."
"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."
"I don't feel like a fashion person. I don't even have a little earring somewhere."
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."
"Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence."
"I've had some weird experiences."
"Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me."
"You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium."
"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element."
"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse."
"You can lose who you are so easily when you're being so many things to so many different people."
"If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into."
"Whenever possible, I operate outside the system."
"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
"I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it."
"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."
"Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation."
"I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism."
"I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it."
"A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that."
"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."
