If I Could Do What I Want

We All Perform. It's What We Do For Each Other All The Time, Deliberately Or Unintionally. It's A Way Of Telling About Ourselves In The Hope Of Being Recognized As What We'd Like To Be.--performance

Marilyn Monroe Gave More To The Still Camera Than Any Actress, Any Woman I've Ever Photographed; Infinitely More Patient, More Demanding Of Herself And More Comfortable In Front Of The Camera Than Away From It.

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.

Camera Lies All The Time. It’s All It Does Is Lie, Because When You Choose This Moment Instead Of This Moment, When You… The Moment You’ve Made A Choice, You’re Lying About Something Larger. Lying Is An Ugly Word. I Don’t Mean Lying. But Any Artist Picks And Chooses What They Want To Paint Or Write About Or Say. Photographers Are The Same.

It's Not Hard Being Great Occasionally. It's Difficult To Be Good Consistently.