Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
Jock Sturges
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jock Sturges
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Photographer
New York City
New York
Serving
Sentences
Second
Public
Happened
Raid
Apartment
Found
Sentence
Denial
More quotes by Jock Sturges
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
Jock Sturges
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.
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
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
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 use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.
Jock Sturges
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
Jock Sturges
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.
Jock Sturges
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
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
Jock Sturges
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
Jock Sturges
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
Jock Sturges
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.
Jock Sturges
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
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
Jock Sturges
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
Jock Sturges
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
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
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.
Jock Sturges
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