I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

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.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

He would find his Susie, inside his young son. Give that love to the living.

If you had all the time in the world but your knowledge, wisdom and understanding remained unchanged, your life would remain the same.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.