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

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.

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.

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you."Leo

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.",

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and you can't wait to see your baby, and it's a crocodile.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.