Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

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.

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.

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

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

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE