I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."

"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 ordinary."

My fashion pictures are documents just as much as my boat people or my pictures for Band-Aid of Sudan.

Everybody comes along at the right time. . . . Leonardo was lucky because he came along at the right time. Oscar Wilde was lucky because he came at the right time -- if he hadn't gone to court and been martyred he wouldn't be such a cult hero now.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.