The Pictures Have A Reality For Me

Start With A Style And You Are In Chains, Start With An Idea And You Are Free.

My Photographs Don't Go Below The Surface. They Don't Go Below Anything. They're Readings Of The Surface. I Have Great Faith In Surfaces. A Good One Is Full Of Clues. But Whenever I Become Absorbed In The Beauty Of A Face, In The Excellence Of A Single Feature, I Feel I've Lost What's Really There Been Seduced By Someone Else's Standard Of Beauty Or By The Sitter's Own Idea Of The Best In Him. That's Not Usually The Best. So Each Sitting Becomes A Contest.

If Each Photograph Steals A Bit Of The Soul, Isn't It Possible That I Give Up Pieces Of Mine Every Time I Take A Picture?

A Portrait Isn't A Fact But An Opinion - An Occasion Rather Than A Truth.

A Photographic Portrait Is A Picture Of Someone Who Knows He Is Being Photographed