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.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

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

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

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.

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

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

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

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.

The cost of forgiveness is less than the price of bitterness

Desires are only a problem when the means to fulfill them are not available.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner.

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

I've grown extremely tired of the face of the world.

I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in.

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.