Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Children are sexual beings, but it's an area that makes most people feel uncomfortable.
Do it for Satan. You know you're dirty.
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
He had the face of a beautiful animal.
How can you give a dinner for someone who's not here?
I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.
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.
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
I am sure the time will come when I say, I like the way I used to look. But until then I'm OK.
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.
I can't even look at the pictures in the book anymore. It seems like most of the men in it are dead.
I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.
I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.
I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.
I feel a little bad about not being with you for your mother's funeral, but those things depress me so.
I got that feeling in my stomach, it's not a directly sexual one, it's more potent than that.
I had many affairs, but I was never into quickie sex. I've only slept with maybe a thousand men.
I had to sell a lot of photographs to make the kind of money a painter made from selling just one painting. I couldn't sit back and hope for the best.
I have to find out if I'm gay once and for all.
I have to get out of here. The flash hurts me... I've got it. Everybody's got it.
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
I just try to live my life and do my thing.
I just want to be written about as a normal artist.
I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.
I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.
I think hand gestures are beautiful. What it happens to be doing, it happens to be doing, but that's an aside.
I think I should be a little less concerned with the bizarre aspects of my work if in fact I'm interested in having my work catch on.
I think I'm being accepted by the fashion crowd.
I want to know about the AIDS thing.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
I wish I could be elegant.
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
I'm like a space creature with all these tubes coming out of me. It's hideous.
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
I'm not a photojournalist.
I'm not going to have my kid brother come along and ride off my energy. I want you to change your name.
I'm not interested in being with a nobody.
I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
I'm so lucky they've found a cure.
I've never bid on anything before, but I can imagine one could get off on it.
I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.
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.
If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.
If I were to make something that took two weeks to do, I'd lose my enthusiasm.
If Sam hadn't had the money, I might not have been involved with him. He was a package, so to speak.
If you channel it right, there's more energy in sex than there is in art.
It has to be racist. I'm white and they are black. There is a difference somehow, but it doesn't have to be negative.
It was hard to sit through a dinner for three or four hours and not say a word.
It wasn't just about having sex, although I had plenty of that. It was about talking to people and gaining their trust. You had to be adaptable.
It's a disaster. They're all in sales.
It's all so stupid. Doesn't anyone care about me?
It's got me. I'm just sort of disappearing.
Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.
Look at all the people. I still have the magic.
Looking at these photographs made me think photography could be art.
My approach to photographing a flower is not much different than photographing a cock. Basically, it's the same thing.
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
My life began in the summer of 1969. Before that I didn't exist.
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.
My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
Sex is the only thing worth living for.
The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.
The fist in that picture belongs to the art director for one of the better art fashion magazines.
The models came out with my dice jewelry and domino cuffs... then he copied one of the jackets I was wearing.
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
The whole experience is definitely extraordinary. Everyone changes their clothes at least three times a day.
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
This is the sleaziest corner in New York. How can it be that I'm standing here in the midst of all this human garbage?
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
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.
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
You'll be taking photographs and subconsciously know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before.
You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.
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