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.

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.

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

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

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

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.