Quote

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

Jock Sturges

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jock Sturges
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Photographer
New York City
New York
Make
Extraordinarily
Appealing
Phenomenon
Shame
Soon
Bring
Also
Something
Forbid

More quotes by Jock Sturges

Image
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
Image
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
Jock Sturges
Image
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.
Jock Sturges
Image
What I'm good at is making art.
Jock Sturges
Image
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
Jock Sturges
Image
I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.
Jock Sturges
Image
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
Jock Sturges
Image
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
Jock Sturges
Image
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
Jock Sturges
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
Jock Sturges
Image
My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.
Jock Sturges
Image
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
Jock Sturges
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.
Jock Sturges
Image
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
Image
Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
Jock Sturges
Image
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
Jock Sturges