A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

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 extraordinary.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

I've always been a bit flip.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

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

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

You adapt to who you're photographing.

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

My paintings are rubbish.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.

I always go for simplicity.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'

I've had some weird experiences.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

I'm not really one for regrets.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

I'm not political and I don't judge.

It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.