I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

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?

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.