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

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

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

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

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

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

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it. It's a pleasure to make a living that way. It's pleasure and then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits. It's not important what I consider myself to be, but I consider myself to be a portrait photographer.