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

Jock Sturges

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They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

left clothes artist

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

checks artist kids

What I'm good at is making art.

I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical and psychological change.

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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.

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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.

ifs-and artist people

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

guilty artist want

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

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I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

erotic birth sensual

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

sensual artist thinking

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

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

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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.

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

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The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

birth sensual artist

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

photography artist thinking

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

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

seeing artist way

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

photography artist long

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

concerned skills artist