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.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

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.

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