I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was m….

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more t….

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be im….

Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind.

Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining.….

[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick ….

In black and white you suggest, in color you state..

Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people wil….

If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway..