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

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

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.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

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.