I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

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.

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

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 charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.