Genius and taste don't go together.

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

My women are always victorious.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone?

Saying both sides participated in violence doesn't mean both sides are equally ideologically wrong, you know.

Music is your own experience your thoughts your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn.

No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.

Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are the best. You won't have me ever say a bad word about them.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

Music's my medication.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.