Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.