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

What I'm good at is making art.

My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

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 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.

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.