It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

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.