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" That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. "

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" Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. "

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" The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy. "

" A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population. "

" There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will. "

" It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. "

" It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. "

" 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. "

" I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. "

" I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so. "

" I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. "

" 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. "

" Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. "

" What I'm good at is making art. "

" I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. "

" The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. "

" I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. "

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

" I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions. "

" There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations. "

" As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. "