Caps Quote by Joyce Tenneson

Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is…

— Joyce Tenneson

My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting…

— Joyce Tenneson

My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the…

— Joyce Tenneson

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

— Joyce Tenneson

If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how…

— Joyce Tenneson

Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I…

— Joyce Tenneson

I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something. They were…

— Joyce Tenneson

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I…

— Joyce Tenneson

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

— Joyce Tenneson

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

— Joyce Tenneson

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

— Joyce Tenneson

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

— Joyce Tenneson