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

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

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

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.

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

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.