One Man's Fantasy Is Another Man's Job.

When You Pose For A Photograph, It's Behind A Smile That Isn't Yours. You Are Angry And Hungry And Alive. What I Value In You Is That Intensity. I Want To Make Portraits As Intense As People.

For Hours She Danced And Sang And Flirted And Did This Thing That's-she Did Marilyn Monroe. And Then There Was The Inevitable Drop. And When The Night Was Over And The White Wine Was Over And The Dancing Was Over, She Sat In The Corner Like A Child, With Everything Gone. I Saw Her Sitting Quietly Without Expression On Her Face, And I Walked Towards Her But I Wouldn't Photograph Her Without Her Knowledge Of It. And As I Came With The Camera, I Saw That She Was Not Saying No.

One Man's Fantasy Is Another Man's Job.

Faces Are The Ledgers Of Our Experience.

You Can't Get At The Thing Itself, The Real Nature Of The Sitter, By Stripping Away The Surface. You Can Only Get Beyond The Surface By Working With The Surface. All That You Can Do Is Manipulate That Surface - Gesture, Costume, Expression - Radically And Correctly.