The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
One man's fantasy is another man's job.
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.