A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

Yes, we need to change, but simple changes can have profound impacts.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.

I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.

Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

Dream the dream, find that extraordinary vision, and keep it in focus.

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.

Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.

I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two.

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

Make the most of what you have and enjoy being female; enjoy being YOU.

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