Of all the subjects I have photographed, the most controversial and the one that has moved me the most has to be the prostitutes who are getting on in years. They are true survivors.
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.
I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.
You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
I have been photographed to death
I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.
Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.
What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?
It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.
However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.