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What I'm good at is making art.
— Jock Sturges
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
— Jock Sturges
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
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
— Jock Sturges
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
— Jock Sturges
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
— Jock Sturges
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
— Jock Sturges
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.
— Jock Sturges
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
— Jock Sturges
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
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.
— Jock Sturges
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
— Jock Sturges
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
— Jock Sturges
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
— Jock Sturges
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
— Jock Sturges
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
— Jock Sturges
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
— Jock Sturges
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
— Jock Sturges
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
— Jock Sturges
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
— Jock Sturges
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
— Jock Sturges
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
— Jock Sturges
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
— Jock Sturges
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.
— Jock Sturges
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
— Jock Sturges
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
— Jock Sturges
