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.

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.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

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

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.