The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

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.

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

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.

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

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