I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

My women are always victorious.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

You can try to dirty my name, but I'll wear your hate like war paint.

a voice called out after me, 'life takes us on many divergent paths, and yet we shall meet one more time! Not in the flesh, but in the sun, man's home

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

There is no uniform, global model for democracy.