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 am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

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

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

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

Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.