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

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

...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.

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.

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