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“The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day, because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other and to that extent I can accept myself.”
Source : "War Photographer". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2001. 
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“I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have some excess resources. And they trade those resources with artists whose work makes them feel good, or feel better, or question. And the artist, if they're smart, they use it to buy the most expensive thing in the world: time to make more. The more that come, the better it is for these people, their children, the people they care about, fills the society with a real constant thing.”
Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com
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“The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.”
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“This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
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“The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.”
Source : "My Dinner with Strummer". Interview with Earl Chalmers for Rude International, March 1999.
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“Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.”
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“Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will”
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“When I live lucidly I see that I am both mortal and immortal. The person I appear to be in time had a beginning and will come to an end. But the deep self isn't in time, just like a dreamer isn't in a dream.”
