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 just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory print, one that contains all that you intended, is very often more difficult and dangerous than the sitting itself. When I’m photographing, I immediately know when I’ve got the image I really want. But to get the image out of the camera and into the open, is another matter.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

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.

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

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.