It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's req….

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture..

Genius and taste don't go together..

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at ….

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person..

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it..

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera..

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposur….

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them..

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already..

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a….

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipm….

There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually muc….

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right ….

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I pho….

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapbo….

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background.….

What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to ge….

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditi….

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain..