My women are always victorious.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

...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.