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" There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed. "
Jock Sturges
Being
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" I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. "
Jock Sturges
Birth
Sensual
Always
" It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. "
Jock Sturges
Make
Photographer
Really
" I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. "
Jock Sturges
Guilty
Even
Now
" 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
Like
Up
Most
" I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being. "
Jock Sturges
Way
Artist
Attracted
" 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. "
Jock Sturges
Birth
Best
Children
" 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
Supreme Court
Work
Art
" There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will. "
Jock Sturges
Will
Evidence
Other
" The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. "
Jock Sturges
Birth
Sensual
Species
" I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. "
Jock Sturges
Desire
Who
Shame
" I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions. "
Jock Sturges
Human Body
Body
Human
" They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. "
Jock Sturges
Got
Without
Left
" That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. "
Jock Sturges
Look
Ambition
You
" Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. "
Jock Sturges
Body
Think
More
" Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. "
Jock Sturges
Different Cultures
Think
Beautiful
" 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. I don't shoot that any more. "
Jock Sturges
People
Evidence
Now
" 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. "
Jock Sturges
Things
People
Doing
" Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. "
Jock Sturges
Involved
Work
Going
" What I'm good at is making art. "
Jock Sturges
Art
Good
Making
" I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. "
Jock Sturges
Skill
Good
Myself
" 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
Without
Photographs
Thought
" 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
Peace
Life
Being
" As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. "
Jock Sturges
You
Make
Bring
" I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. "
Jock Sturges
Art
Back
Than