A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it. It's a pleasure to make a living that way. It's pleasure and then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits. It's not important what I consider myself to be, but I consider myself to be a portrait photographer.

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.

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

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.

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.