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'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

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.

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

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

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

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