I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

I've done a lot of nudes and there's always a sexual charge.

Among my stillness was a pounding heart.

I love sleep. I need sleep. We all do, of course. There are those people that don't need sleep. I think they're called 'successful.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.