“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.” IfsLooksBehindsArmsFingersPantsPointingTrembling Author: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.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsShouldDecidedPopulationTinyMinoritiesAggressiveProtectedWiser Author: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.” PeopleIfsDifferentArtistMessagesDifferent ThingsIfs And Author:Jock Sturges
“If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.” IfsArtCountryArtistDirectorsCourtSupremeExpertsMuseumsSupreme CourtTestimony Author:Jock Sturges
“I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical and psychological change. If I'm able to make pictures of children that are so real, as you follow the children over the years in any given book, and in subsequent books they get older and older and grow up, perhaps there might be something cautionary in that visual example. 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.” IfsYearsChildrenBookRealMightHappensAbleGivenGrowsGrowing UpGreaterExamplePsychologicalVisualsFascinated Author:Jock Sturges