Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

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

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

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

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.