My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don't like it, study it and figure out why you don't like it. You'll learn from your mistake.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

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