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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.

Marilyn Monroe Gave More To The Still Camera Than Any Actress, Any Woman I've Ever Photographed; Infinitely More Patient, More Demanding Of Herself And More Comfortable In Front Of The Camera Than Away From It.

Sometimes I Think All My Pictures Are Just Pictures Of Me.

I Never Wanted To Be Called An Artist. I Wanted To Be Called A Photographer.

A Portrait Isn't A Fact But An Opinion - An Occasion Rather Than A Truth.