Quotes by Jock Sturges

About Jock Sturges:

Jock Sturges is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families.
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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

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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 the older of the two children.

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What I'm good at is making art.

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If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

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I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

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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 in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first...

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Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

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

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But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

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Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

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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 psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJock Sturges
  • DescriptionAmerican photographer
  • Born1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhotographer