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

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

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

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. Lying is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.