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

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.

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.

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.

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?

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

In L.A., you are your job.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

There are orphans who can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake; for it brings them more work than they care to do, leaving them but little time for their own pleasure.

Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.

Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.

If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.