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.

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

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.

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

When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light.

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