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" I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple. "

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" My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me. "

" Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America. "

" If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident. "

" I like festivals of all kinds: in 1969, I made a film about the first Pan-African festival in Algiers, which celebrated the countries that had been liberated 10 years earlier. There was a tremendous feeling of kinship. "

" I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country. "

" I like the streets. I grew up in the streets. "

" My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people who had made it. "

" I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder. "

" French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style. "

" I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened. "

" Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money. "

" I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing. "

" I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things. "

" If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life. "

" I thought it would be a good idea to look at New York with this half-European, half-native eye and really do something to get back at this city that I thought really gave me a hard time when I grew up. "

" I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4 in the morning. "

" The English are very exotic to me. "

" I'm an outsider, I guess. "

" Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money. "

" When I made 'Polly Maggoo,' it was more or less the end of this collaboration with 'Vogue' because I made a caricature of the editor-in-chief and the fashion people, so they didn't really adore me. "

" The best critics of America are Americans. "

" Don't have rules, taboos, or limits. "

" I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger. "

" Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent. "

" Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting. "

" If a film is a real knockout like 'Raging Bull,' it does not matter that it might not have happened like that. "

" In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can take it or leave it. "

" I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me. "

" I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct. "