Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

Whatever will be, will be, if and only if you let it be.

Wish for the best, prepare for the worst

Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever!

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

still loved but deprived of grace

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.