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

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

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

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

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