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

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

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

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

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

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.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory print, one that contains all that you intended, is very often more difficult and dangerous than the sitting itself. When I’m photographing, I immediately know when I’ve got the image I really want. But to get the image out of the camera and into the open, is another matter.