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

    Desire   Errands   Lasts  
    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

    Children   Real   Artist  
  • Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

    "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.
  • I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

    Artist   Want   Guilty  
  • There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

    Alive   Persons  
    "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.
  • That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

  • Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • 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.

    Artist   Ifs And   People  
  • 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.

    "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.
  • The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

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

    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • 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.

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

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

  • What I'm good at is making art.

    Art   Artist  
    "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 04, 1998.
  • 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.

    Looks   Arms   Pants  
  • It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

  • I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.

    Beach   Thinking   People  
  • A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • 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.

    Peace   Taken   Artist  
    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

    Artist   Two   People  
    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

    Erotic   Sensual   Birth  
    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

    Kids   Artist   Checks  
    "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.
  • Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

    Artist   Focus   Involved  
  • 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.

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

    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

  • We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

    Birthday   Artist   Age  
    "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.
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