"She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight."

“A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.”

Source : Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, William F. Stapp, National Museum of American Art (U.S.), National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1990). “Irving Penn master images: the collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

“If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?”

“I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.”

“I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.”

“Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.”

“I shave my body in all kinds of ways, wear tons of eyeliner and dye my hair pink.”

“Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.”

“The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.”