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• I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
• All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
• Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
• The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
• To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
• I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
• My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
• I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure…
• I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
• When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I…
• A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as…
• A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be…

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