"The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins."

“I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will...”

“The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

“Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.”

“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”

“I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.”

“I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.”

Source : "Marc Forgione: What It's Like to Be the Next Iron Chef". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. November 22, 2010.

“Flattery makes fools of the best of us.”

Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Death in The Life”, p.280, Open Road Media