“The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.”

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.

If you take your inspiration from nature, you don’t invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something.

My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality.

When you’re older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

I’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.

I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I’d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.

I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.

DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

I don’t think Apple has to own a content business.