...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.

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 never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

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

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

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.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.