I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.

You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

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.

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.