"One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in."

“Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.”

“Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.”

“We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.”

“If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

“It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.”

“We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.”

“Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.”

Source : Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

“Personally, people know themselves very poorly.”

Source : Ernst Mach, C. M. Williams (1897). “Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations”