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

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

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.