Quotes By Jock Sturges

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

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.

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.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

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.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

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.

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

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.

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.

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.