Jock Sturges Quotes

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• Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

  Jock Sturges

  Beautiful, Thinking, Artist

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  People, Minorities, Tiny

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, Artist, Two

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• Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Focus, Involved

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Peace, Taken, Artist

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Children, Real, Artist

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• When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

  Jock Sturges

  Years, Doubt, Informed Consent

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Sensual, Birth

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Taken, Artist, Photograph

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• 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

  Beach, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Occupy Yourself, Body, Might

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

  Jock Sturges

  Body, Evolution, Humans

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

  Jock Sturges

  Desire, Errands, Lasts

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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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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  Thinking, Artist, People

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Change, Believe, Artist

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, Thinking, Artist

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Government, Irony

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Clothes, Left

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

  Jock Sturges

  Erotic, Sensual, Birth

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Way, Seeing

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• Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

  Jock Sturges

  Thinking, Done, Best Picture

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• I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

  Jock Sturges

  Art, Artist, Get Back

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Animal, Mammals

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• But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Photograph, Harm

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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