The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

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.

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

The joy in doing is your greatest reward.