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

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.

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

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.

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

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.