Richard Avedon

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.