It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

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

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

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.

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

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.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?