“Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a wo...” — Irving Penn Quote

“Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.”

“Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.”

“A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.”

“In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.'”

“If people know you'll go to any lengths for your client, they're less likely to play games with you.”

“Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.”