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

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

...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.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Life is good, when you live in such a way to make it so

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.