...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

I don't know what love means.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

I don't resent anything.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.