81 Quotes by 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.

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.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

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.

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

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

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

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I’ve known them for a very long time.

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