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

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

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

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

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.

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.