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

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?

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

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

Get it out of your historic head.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

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