Jock Sturges Quotes

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
Jock Sturges

Two, Same, Admirable

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
Jock Sturges

Work, Between, Making

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

Single, Ambition, Realize

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

Happy, Enjoy, Kids

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

Between, Photograph

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

Truth, Another, Birth

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

Thought, Taken, Previously

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

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

Before, Left, Clothes

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

Best, Done, Everybody

What I'm good at is making art.
Jock Sturges

Good, Art, Making

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

Work, Question, Whether

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 population.
Jock Sturges

Themselves, Aggressive, Wiser

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 a greater and greater extent.
Jock Sturges

Happen, Child, Themselves

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
Jock Sturges

Body, Less, Avoid

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.
Jock Sturges

Age, Children, Woman

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.
Jock Sturges

Change, Fact, Guilty

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.
Jock Sturges

Avoid, Original, Sin

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 even more beautiful.
Jock Sturges

Beautiful, Sticks, Cases

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 pregnancy.
Jock Sturges

Best, Children, Through

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.
Jock Sturges

Media, Aware, Shrinking

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.
Jock Sturges

Interest, Evidence, Homo

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Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: 1947

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