81 Quotes by Jock Sturges

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

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.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

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

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.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

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.

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

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.