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"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
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"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl."
Woman

"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas."
Time

"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure."
Old

"Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it."
Money

"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera."
Film

"Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag."
Work

"I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen."
Love

"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid."
Money

"People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris."
People

"It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room."
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