I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.