I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the youngest art form. All attempts to enlarge its frontiers are important and should be encouraged.

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.