The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.
Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
