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

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

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.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

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.

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

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