The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

Art has to address eternal issues.

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.

Truth is a tendency.