I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

When following God, Zero we never find.

Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was completefrom TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.