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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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
The skull is nature's sculpture.
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
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 never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
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 always go for simplicity.
I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
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