Jock Sturges

I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

— Jock Sturges

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my…

— Jock Sturges

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

— Jock Sturges

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are…

— Jock Sturges

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

— Jock Sturges

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

— Jock Sturges

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

— Jock Sturges

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send…

— Jock Sturges

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was…

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical and psychological change. If I'm able to make pictures of children that are…

— Jock Sturges

My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person…

— Jock Sturges

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at…

— Jock Sturges

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for…

— Jock Sturges

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the…

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree…

— Jock Sturges

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong…

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

What I'm good at is making art.

— Jock Sturges

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

— Jock Sturges

In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and…

— Jock Sturges

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

— Jock Sturges