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" I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. "

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" There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited. "

" I don't do proud. "

" It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. "

" My exploits are nothing now to the average person. "

" Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. "

" Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in. "

" The earth has a life of its own. "

" My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist. "

" I used to love the '20s. "

" I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. "

" Journalists never make it clear when you are joking. "

" I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women. "

" Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded. "

" The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things. "

" It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres. "

" I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys. "

" I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee. "

" I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that. "

" I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type! "

" I've always been a bit flip. "

" You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. "

" To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep. "

" I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus. "

" Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years. "

" Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration. "

" I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. "

" I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. "

" I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side. "

" I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light. "

" Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. "