It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

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

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

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

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.

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