I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

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

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

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.

Never again will I justify the scars just because I loved the person holding the knife.

Elvis is sweet, but I prefer sleeping with you.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.