I’m the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That’s no errand for me. – Jock Sturges
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. – Jock Sturges
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. – 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
Any artist that’s involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. – 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
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
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. – Jock Sturges
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. – Jock Sturges
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I’ve known them for a very long time. – 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. – Jock Sturges
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. – 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. – Jock Sturges
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. – Jock Sturges
I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. – Jock Sturges
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. – Jock Sturges
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. – Jock Sturges
In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that. – Jock Sturges
I’m guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it’s a naivete that I really don’t want to abandon, not even now. – Jock Sturges
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. – 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. – Jock Sturges
