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

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

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

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