"Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. Feeling correct is a feeling I think everyone knows."

"... em que o homem ama o seu semelhante e a ele se prende por laços de fraternidade e solidariedade; uma sociedade que lhe proporciona a possibilidade de transcender a natureza, pela criação e não pela destruição; em que cada um toma consciência de si mesmo, pelo exercício dos seus poderes pessoais e não pela conformidade; em que existe um sistema de orientação e devoção, sem que o homem precise distorcer a realidade e adorar ídolos."

 "Stay true to your ideas. They tell you everything."

"We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens."

 

"You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?"

 “Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.”

 “- Comigo você falará sua alma toda, mesmo em silêncio. Eu falarei um dia minha alma toda e nós não nos esgotaremos porque a alma é infinita. E além disso temos dois corpos que nos será um prazer alegre, mudo, profundo”.

“(…) Lembre-se: quem é capaz de sofrer intensamente, também pode ser capaz de intensa alegria”.

 "You're alone... alone... alone.. (...) I'm again dreaming, the painful, delusional, pleasurable and maddening dream beyond the border. (...) I'm a man without home, without a friend, without a wife. (...) I'm crazy, crazy with pain, crazy with anguish. I'm desesperated. But not lost. No; there is a reality that I belong."

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive."

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there is nothing left to do, and nothing else to pursue."

"The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality."

 "Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."

"Lucidity, come back to me

Put all five senses back to where they're meant to be
Oh, it's hard to tell, breaks down
If there is a will, there is a way"

 "Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal."

"No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on."

 "I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost."

 "The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity."

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."

 "Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so-called pleasure.’ Our ‘increasing mental sickness’ may find expression in neurotic symptoms. These symptoms are conspicuous and extremely distressing. But ‘let us beware’, says Dr Fromm, ‘of defining mental hygiene as the prevention of symptoms. Symptoms as such are not our enemy, but our friend; where there are symptoms there is conflict, and conflict always indicates that the forces of life which strive for integration and happiness are still fighting.’ The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. ‘Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.’ They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness."