You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.