Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

People want security in this insecure world.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

I always go for simplicity.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

I am mad about my wife.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

I did painting before I did photography.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

I don't do proud.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

I don't think it matters where I came from any more.

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

I have never met an ugly woman.

I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

I love learning new techniques.

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.