Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace, And music of her face, You'd drop a tear, Seeing more harmony In her bright eye, Than now you hear.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.