Quotes from Platon

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.

I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

I've been one of the image-makers who created this concept of perfection. I've done a thousand magazine covers where I'm celebrating Hollywood, glamorous people. Which is all good. It's all entertainment.

It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.

My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

Kötülük ölümden daha h?zl? koÅŸar.

La vergüenza humana surge exclusivamente de la amenaza del descubrimiento.

Qué es lo que es siempre y no deviene y qué, lo que deviene continuamente, pero nunca es?

Yo declaro que la justicia no es otra cosa que la conveniencia del más fuerte.

Ich kenne keinen sicheren Weg zum Erfolg, nur einen zum sicheren Misserfolg-es jedem recht machen zu wollen.

Ölüm iki ÅŸeyden biridir: ya bir hiçlik, büsbütün ÅŸuursuzluk halidir, yahut da, herkesin dediÄŸi gibi ruhun bu dünyadan ayr?larak baÅŸka bir dünyaya geçmesidir

Bir insan tanr?lar?n varl???na hiç inanmasa da, eÄŸer ayn? zamanda dürüst bir mizac? varsa, böyle kiÅŸiler insanlardaki kötülükten nefret eder; yanl??l?klara kar?? olan nefretleri, onlar? yanl?? iÅŸler yapmaktan uzaklaÅŸt?r?r; haks?zl?ktan kaç?n?rlar ve namuslu yaÅŸarlar

Beauty is the splendour of truth

Conocí desde luego que no es la sabiduría la que guía a los poetas, sino ciertos movimientos de la naturaleza y un entusiasmo semejante al de los profetas y adivinos; que todos dicen muy buenas cosas, sin comprender nada de lo que dicen.

La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza, y tú todavía estás lejos de eso.