Body Quote by Jerzy Kosinski

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

— Terry Richardson

“Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been disturbed, fissured).…

— Roland Barthes

“The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.”

— Shulamith Firestone

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

— William S. Burroughs

Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)

— Slim Aarons

I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a…

— Walker Evans

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best…

— Aaron Siskind

Photography is a generous medium…

— Lee Friedlander

Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for…

— Pipilotti Rist

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

— Joel Meyerowitz

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

— Edward Steichen

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps…

— Potter Stewart