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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/a-virulent-aggressive-minority-has-decided-that-americans-don-t-know/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

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## More by Jock Sturges

> [I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/i-don-t-photograph-any-two-people-who-are-remotely-the-same/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/before-i-d-photograph-anything-i-didn-t-think-there-was-anything-more/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/no-two-people-take-on-the-information-of-being-admirable-and-being/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/some-of-the-people-that-i-photographed-as-sticks-became-much-more/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/i-m-the-last-person-who-has-any-desire-to-instruct-anybody-in-shame/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/i-know-the-families-that-i-photograph-extremely-well-and-have-known/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/the-images-i-like-best-are-parts-of-series-that-i-ve-started-in-some/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/i-found-myself-serving-a-sentence-of-public-denial-from-the-very/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/i-m-guilty-of-extraordinary-naivete-i-suppose-but-it-s-a-naivete-that/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/we-live-in-an-age-where-anonymity-is-growing-in-magnitude-like-a-bomb/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/they-were-without-clothes-before-i-got-there-and-they-were-without/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/there-are-photographs-that-i-don-t-take-now-that-i-previously-would/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/different-members-of-different-cultures-will-think-that-some-things/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/if-somebody-s-pointing-a-trembling-finger-at-your-pants-and-saying/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

> [Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jock-sturges/now-i-recognize-that-there-are-certain-postures-and-angles-that-make/)

[Jock Sturges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jock-sturges/)

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