I only tie up woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up. Tying up a woman becomes an embrace.

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

Lean on God, and he leans on you fulfilling his love on Earth.

Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.

Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.

There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.

Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

Buff Bagwell ain't nothin' but a chippendale dancer!

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.