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.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

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.

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

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.