Jock Sturges Quotes
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I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
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When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
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I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
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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 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.
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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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There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
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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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Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
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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.
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It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
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There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
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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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Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.
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They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.
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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.
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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
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The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
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Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
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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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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'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.