“Klimt sought newer truths that could not be captured by the camera. He… turned the artists view inward”

“An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”

“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”

“Freedom, that he always thought was outward motion, turns out to be this inward dwindling.”

“The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography, it embodies the essence… that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.”

“Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.”

“He thought a photograph was nothing; that he should blend into the surroundings and become invisible, the better to work and capture –as he said natural light. One shouldn’t even hear the click of Rolleiflex. He would have liked to conceal his camera. The death of his friend Robert Capa could in fact be explained, as he saw it, by this desire, the giddiness of blending into the surrounding once and for all.”

“The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there”

“In terms of the big decisions before the Government, he was incapable of making them. He, as a seasoned politician from the TV cameras could turn it on, but his demeanour behind closed doors was absolutely miserable, irritated. If I was going to summarise it: personally miserable, politically paralysed.”

“Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.”