I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

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

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

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?

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.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.