Quotes By Jock Sturges

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

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

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.

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

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

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

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. I don't shoot that any more.

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

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

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

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

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

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

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

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.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.