Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
Everything is one and I am one with 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.
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.
Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.
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.
Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children. . . it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.