Dali likes me taking his picture because he is interested in pictures that do not simply reproduce reality. Even in photos he prefers to appear outside reality .That is surrealistic!

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

Relaxing, going on vacation, sleeping, having fun when I want, golfing when I want, do whatever I want - I am going to enjoy it.

I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.