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 stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

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 don't know what love means.