Defending Myself Quotes by Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

— Jock Sturges

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…

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

— Jock Sturges

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…

— Jock Sturges

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges