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

For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

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

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