A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.