After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.
I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful
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 don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.
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.
I don't like that particular word 'shocking. ' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.
I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
The last major breakthrough for the theatre was electricity, and we have to push beyond that if we want to move beyond the blue-haired old ladies in the stalls. Im going to keep working on the integration of film and video technology.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn.