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.

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.

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.

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.

What I'm good at is making art.

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

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