I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

Dali likes me taking his picture because he is interested in pictures that do not simply reproduce reality. Even in photos he prefers to appear outside reality .That is surrealistic!

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.

Be a master of your dreams, not the slave of your sorrows.

All men of action are dreamers.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.