So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.