81 Quotes by Jock Sturges

Before, I’d photograph anything. I didn’t think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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