Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

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.

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?

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

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

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