Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.

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.

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.

Everyone here seems to know exactly what they need, but I leave without a thing.

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect!

People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.