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.

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

Photographing a cake can be art.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

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.

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