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

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

" I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. "

" Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more. "