In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

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.

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

The self can only be realized, and the realization can only happen, out of personal experience.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

For me, fashion is an expression of who I am right in that moment - so what you're seeing is what I'm influenced by now.

Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

I'm actually even thinking of stealing the Walls of Jericho and turning in into the Walls of Miz.