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

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 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.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment

My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it

Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

Pandering to the people who have supported this industry for years is a sure way for this industry to be dead in a few years.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.