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My works tends to be erotic.

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.

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I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One person's madness is reiterated by another, and a story is born. The rumour becomes a substitute for news.

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One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone.

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I'm not a documentarian. I'm not a photojournalist.

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I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world.

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I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

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Often, there's an emphasis in my work, and it's sort of the celebrating of the body.

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I do all I can to make my world a better place to live in for me and for my kids as well.

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So many a time, I would find myself stuck in my studio while, in another country, my exhibitions were opening and I was being celebrated.

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I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human.

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Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.

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While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

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I'm big into multifunctional clothing.

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Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

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Being taught to despise your body is being taught to perhaps admire someone else's body more than yours - being taught that your body is good for certain things and not for others.

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My works tends to be erotic.

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I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that's probably why we create such massive boundaries - because it's so slippery where they begin and where they end.

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I keep things moving along with a seriously loving, caring, and brilliant man, a fierce group of friends - and really strong coffee.

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We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?'

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I love magazines because they're so dispensable, and they're so quickly consumed. In that way, they're quite honest. They're unashamed about how small an amount of time they're trying to keep our attention.

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In 'National Geographic,' you always saw pictures of tribal Africa. And here I am, sitting in Nairobi in our suburban house, watching TV and thinking, 'Why is it always going to be these tribal people 'that are the ambassadors of our image?

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