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 never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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?
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
I don't resent anything.
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
