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 think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
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 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.
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
I don't resent anything.
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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.
I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
Get it out of your historic head.
I don't know what love means.
