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.

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

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.

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

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.

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

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.