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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.


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.


I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.


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


I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.


The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.


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


I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.


It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.


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.


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


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


The skull is nature's sculpture.


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


If you're curious, London's an amazing place.


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.


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.


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