Jock Sturges Quotes

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• 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…
• Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
• The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
• But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
• I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
• I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
• I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
• 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…
• 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.
• But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
• Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
• Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
• Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to…
• I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
• I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
• Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
• I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
• I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
• I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
• I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

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