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My Photographs Don't Go Below The Surface. They Don't Go Below Anything. They're Readings Of The Surface. I Have Great Faith In Surfaces. A Good One Is Full Of Clues. But Whenever I Become Absorbed In The Beauty Of A Face, In The Excellence Of A Single Feature, I Feel I've Lost What's Really There Been Seduced By Someone Else's Standard Of Beauty Or By The Sitter's Own Idea Of The Best In Him. That's Not Usually The Best. So Each Sitting Becomes A Contest.

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.

The Pictures Have A Reality For Me That The People Don't. It Is Through The Photographs That I Know Them.

A Portrait Is Not A Likeness. The Moment An Emotion Or Fact Is Transformed Into A Photograph It Is No Longer A Fact But An Opinion. There Is No Such Thing As Inaccuracy In A Photograph. All Photographs Are Accurate. None Of Them Is The Truth.

I Believe That You've Got To Love Your Work So Much That It Is All You Want To Do.