I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
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.
It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.