I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

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.

If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.

I left United, but my Heart didn't

I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most." ~ Hardy Cates

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people and events and keeps us from losing our way.

I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!