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.

...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.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

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

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.