"We do not see things the way they are. We see things the way we are."

"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

"He had an insatiable curiosity and compassion for just regular people, very often working-class people or artists or women. In Faces, there were older women who expressed their desires and frustrations and that was just not seen at the time. It was considered embarrassing for an older woman to have anything to say about anything emotional."