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!

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

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

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

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