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" In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've always tried to do pictures that don't date. "

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

" I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out. "

" All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them. "

" I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. "

" I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. "

" 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. "

" I love learning new techniques. "

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

" I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.' "

" Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. "

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

" The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas. "

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

" The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art. "

" 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. "

" I am mad about my wife. "

" I don't think it matters where I came from any more. "

" I left school on my 15th birthday. "

" I'm an image-maker. "

" 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. "

" My paintings are rubbish. "

" I don't feel very optimistic in London. "

" I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men. "

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