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"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."
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"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
"I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went, 'Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven't shown yet.' And I started kind of playing around with that side of things."
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"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing."
"I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities."
"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."
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"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even 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."
"That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is."
"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."
"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."
"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable."
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