If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.
My work is aimed at creating a world in which I wish to live. Consequently, it is about creating ideals with the aid of realistic techniques. My most fundamental motivation is a desire for unity, fusion and sense of community.
What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.
This coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe coming closer together, and nightlife and techno and ecstasy culture seemed like a very powerful panEuropean movement.
Always take yourself seriously. . . it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn't born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist himherself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true.
For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.
The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between. . . the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.