I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

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

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

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

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.