“I think all my pictures are ideas, and they’re ideas made into images.”

There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic?

Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.

I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected.

The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.

You know, the Chinese don’t like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they’re right.

Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.

I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.

Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?