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

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!

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.

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.

The abuse of a good does not diminish the good of a good

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.