Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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.
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 don't know what love means.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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?
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.