Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.