When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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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.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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