I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

- Peter Beard

Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fash…

- Peter Beard

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

- Peter Beard

Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind…

- Peter Beard

I am a parasite off beauty.

- Peter Beard

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

- Peter Beard

I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. …

- Peter Beard

I had some highlight moments in the early '60s when I used to do a lot of rubbings. I used Afta; it's an amazing chemical. If you pour it on somethin…

- Peter Beard

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

- Peter Beard