Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

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.

Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.