But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

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.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

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