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

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

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.

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.

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

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

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