I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.

Most screen violence is tedious.

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'