He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.