I Think Charm Is The Ability To

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.

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

I Always Prefer To Work In The Studio. It Isolates People From Their Environment. They Become In A Sense... Symbolic Of Themselves. I Often Feel That People Come To Me To Be Photographed As They Would Go To A Doctor Or A Fortune Teller - To Find Out How They Are.

When I Was A Boy, My Family Took Great Care With Our Snapshots. We Really Planned Them. We Made Compositions. We Posed In Front Of Expensive Cars, Homes, That Werent Ours. We Borrowed Dogs. Almost Every Family Picture Taken Of Us When I Was Young Had A Different Borrowed Dog In It.