People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.