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Jock Sturges quotes

American Photographer

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Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent. Jock Sturges
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
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. 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
Jock Sturges quote: "I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it."
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. Jock Sturges
Jock Sturges quote: "When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to..."
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable. Jock Sturges
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. Jock Sturges
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. Jock Sturges
Jock Sturges quote: "There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed."
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed. Jock Sturges
Jock Sturges quote: "I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in..."
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. 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
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
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
Jock Sturges quote: "Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was..."
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Jock Sturges
Jock Sturges quote: "But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I..."
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. Jock Sturges

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