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

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.

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.

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.

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

With all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess. Crimea has been taken. Don't blame Donald Trump for that.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is.

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.