People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.