81 Quotes by Jock Sturges

What I’m good at is making art.

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.

I’m an artist that’s attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

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

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

But empirically I’ve come to understand that my photographs really don’t do any harm.

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.

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.

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they’re really happy to be there.