Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.