Quotes By 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.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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