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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

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

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My first influence obviously was Picasso.

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I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.

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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

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When I die I want to go to Vogue.

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

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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

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I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

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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.

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

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You adapt to who you're photographing.

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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

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I love learning new techniques.

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I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

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I am mad about my wife.

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

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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

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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.

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

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