I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

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

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.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

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.