I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

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

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.