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

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

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

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.

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.