Helmut Newton

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

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.

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.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.