My women are always victorious.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

...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.

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.

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.