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.

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.