People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

I want to see something I've never seen before.