It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

I love learning new techniques.

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.