It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

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.

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.

You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.

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.

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