I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead..

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back..

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow..

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They….

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to h….

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike..

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men..

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet..

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives..

I don't resent anything..

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket..

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us..

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow..

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease..

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer..

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me..

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life..

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that..

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people ….

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money..

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods..