Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.
You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.