It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. Jock Sturges More Quotes by Jock Sturges More Quotes From Jock Sturges Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. Jock Sturges artist beautiful thinking Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. Jock Sturges involved focus artist 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. Jock Sturges tiny minorities people I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same. Jock Sturges photography artist two 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. Jock Sturges artist taken peace 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. Jock Sturges artist real children But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm. Jock Sturges harm photograph artist There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations. Jock Sturges photograph artist taken There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed. Jock Sturges alive persons Physical beauty is such a strange thing. Jock Sturges physical-beauty strange beauty 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. Jock Sturges beach people thinking I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. Jock Sturges get-back artist art 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. Jock Sturges museums country art 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. Jock Sturges artist people thinking It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. Jock Sturges irony government artist My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. Jock Sturges occupy-yourself body might No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. Jock Sturges artist two people Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful. Jock Sturges artist beautiful thinking That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. Jock Sturges consumption artist practice They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. Jock Sturges left clothes artist
