Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

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.

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

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.