Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

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.

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.