In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.
[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.
Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.
It was sexually a very different thing when [the models] worked with men. They felt a charge. . . I caught them when they were relaxed, natural, and I spent a lot of time talking to them about their husbands, their lovers, their babies.
The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.