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

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.

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.

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.

I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too. —Jude

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

American society has gone completely into denial.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed.

With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.