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If you want reality take the bus.
People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
The adornment of the body is a human need.
I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus
My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.
You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.
I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.
I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.
I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.
I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.
There are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?
I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.
I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.
I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.
I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.
I think that the world is really in very dark ages. In America this could have never been showed, we are even more lost over there than in Europe. We are very lost!
I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.
We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.
Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.
I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.
I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.