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I am a poor man from a poor country, but I have a rich mind.

The only revolutionary force is the power of human creativity.

The function of the artist is to disturb. The function of the art is to make us question.

Art is for everybody.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

If I had another ten years, or even another five, I could have become a true painter.

I am a photographer, and I am interested in the movement of animals and humans.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

I would say to any artist: Don't be an artist until you can't help it.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the time-honored skill and incumbency protection racket.

Pick a theme and work it to the death - no matter what the theme is, work it to the death. You can't do anything else. You have to be absorbed in it.

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The camera is my instrument. The world is my subject. My work is my statement.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I am driven to make things beautiful. I don't care how I do it.

I'm trying to make other people look at themselves.

I paint what I see, not what others see.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I don't really care about the art world. I care about art.