Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

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.

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

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.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

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