As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
