Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

Everything is one and I am one with it.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.