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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)
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions. View quote
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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. View quote
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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. View quote
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It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. View quote
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Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being. View quote
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They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. View quote
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The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. (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. View quote
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The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is. View quote
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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. View quote
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I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same. View quote
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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm. View quote
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No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. View quote
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I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children. View quote
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I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time. View quote
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I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Physical beauty is such a strange thing. View quote
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Jock Sturges

Jock Sturges - Image
Photo: Tatiana Skládalová from Prostějov, Czech rep., CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Photographer
Born: 1947
Quotes count: 47