“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.” PeopleThinkingFilmHoursFiveSixBeachRelax Author: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.” PeopleChildrenRealDesireArtistSufferingLosesForeverTerribleDegreesAbuseSightVictimSexual Desire 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
“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.” PeopleArtistPeaceSituationTakenPhotograph Author:Jock Sturges
“I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.” PeopleTwoArtistPhotographyPhotograph 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
“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.” PeopleThinkingBodyArtistCertainSinEvidenceRedOriginalsAnglePostureObsceneOriginal SinParts Of The Body Author:Jock Sturges
“No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.” PeopleWayTwoArtistInformationAdmirable Author:Jock Sturges
“Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.” PeopleThinkingBeautifulArtistCasesSticksVoluptuous Author:Jock Sturges
“That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.” PeopleLooksRealizingInterestingSubjectsAmbitionComplexesFascinatingMy Ambition Author:Jock Sturges
“The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.” PeoplePhotographyPhotographTransactions Author:Jock Sturges