Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

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

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

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.

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.