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I don't know what love means.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Get it out of your historic head.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I don't resent anything.

I hate big models.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again
it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.