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

...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 people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

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.

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

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.