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

In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.

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

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

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

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

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