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

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

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.

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.

You'll regret that, Bourkan.

The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.

It's hard to be sad when you're laughing, so I enjoy making people happy.