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

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.

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.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

when you betray to someone, first you betray to yourself, who speak somewhere inside you that you are a good human

Be knowledgeable, but not realistic!

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

I used to be Autumn Winters, daughter of an actress and an architect. I had been one of three living in this home, but now I was just Autumn Winters, and I was alone.

The strength of the dollar has historically been tied to the strength of the U.S. economy and the faith that investors have in doing business in America.

Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.