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've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

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

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.

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

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.