1. “Genius and taste don’t go together.”
2. “The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.”
3. “Some people’s photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art carp is killing it already.”
4. “My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse an entertain.”
5. “The photographs don’t arouse me. All I think about is the hard work it took to make them.”
6. “In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.”
7. “I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.”
8. “Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I’ve got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don’t like the way the person looks I won’t do it.”
9. “Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.”
10. “I hate good taste. It’s the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.”
