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

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.

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.

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

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.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.