I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

I don't know what love means.

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?

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

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