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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years.
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.
In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.
I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.
Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.
Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.