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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
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Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
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People want security in this insecure world.
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
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I never set out to be a photographer.
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I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
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I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
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I always go for simplicity.
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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
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You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
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My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
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I've never been anti-women.
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I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
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Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.
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All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
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I left school on my 15th birthday.
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I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.
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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
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I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.
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