My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

There were lots of things to stop and see - and then it was time to go, always time to go.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist.

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.