The people in my pictures have been “arranged,” as on a stage. Nonetheless my pictures are not counterfeit; they reflect what I see in life with my own eyes. 

 My advice for the young? There are two dirty words in photography; one is “art,” and the other is “good taste.” 

 It’s quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo. 

 I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try so called hard pornography—I don’t even know whether it’s hard enough—is to see whether I will be able to overcome this. Because if there is one thing I hate, it’s good taste, to me it’s a dirty word. 

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

 ...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong. 

 If I say to a person, I want to see you naked, and in my head I say, Well I would like to fuck her but the reason I don’t is because I’m scared to gets AIDS or something... 

 Of course I love women. Or else I wouldn’t have spent so much time photographing them and I would be homosexual.