I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.