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

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.

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.

To those who will see, the world waits.

I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos?