There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

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 use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

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.