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

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.

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.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

A new week means new goals. New goals means new success. No goals mean no success and no success means a wasted week.

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.

The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.