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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.
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No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
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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.
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I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. 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.
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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
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But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
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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.
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I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
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I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
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It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
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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.
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I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.
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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.
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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
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