Jock Sturges Quotes
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What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.
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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.
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What I'm good at is making art.
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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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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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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.
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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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I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
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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.
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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 pregnancy.
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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.
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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.
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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'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
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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.
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Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
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I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
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Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
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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.
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I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
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The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
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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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I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.