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    Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

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    I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

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    I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.

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    I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

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    I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

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    I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.

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    I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave.

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    I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

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    I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.

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    I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

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    I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

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    I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.

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    If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

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    If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

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    If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

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    I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

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    I just try to live my life and do my thing.

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    I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

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    I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

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    I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

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    I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

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    I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

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    I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

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    I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.

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    I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

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    I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

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    I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

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    I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

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    Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.

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    My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

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    My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

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    One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

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    People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

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    People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

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    Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

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    The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.

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    The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

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    This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

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    To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

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    Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

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    When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.

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    When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.

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    When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

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    Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

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    With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.