Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Some people spend their entire lives seeing the snow without ever seeing the magic in the existence of one snowflake.

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.

Listen to wise sayings

All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.

When you doubt, abstain.

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.

I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.