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.

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

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.

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.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

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

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.