Jock Sturges Quotes

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
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.
If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.
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.
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
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.
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
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.
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.
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
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.
The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
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.
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
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