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

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

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.

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.

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.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

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