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

Desire, Shame

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

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"Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness " dangerous, beautiful darkness."

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"I want to drink from you're life force."

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"They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!"

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"I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence."

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"When sages commend excess, Desire is sick."

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"Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do."

Work

"I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same."

People

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

Now

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

Thought

"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."

Work

"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that."

Change

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

Truth

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

Body

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

People

"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."

Time