Jock Sturges Quotes - Page 2

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

  Jock Sturges

  Alive, Persons

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

  Jock Sturges

  Beauty, Strange, Physical Beauty

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Thinking, Sensual

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• 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.

  Jock Sturges

  Travel, Children, Journey

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• I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical and psychological change.
  If I'm able to make pictures of children that are so real, as you follow the children over the years in any given book, and in subsequent books they get older and older and grow up, perhaps there might be something cautionary in that visual example.
  Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

  Jock Sturges

  Children, Growing Up, Real

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

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, Artist, Long

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• What I'm good at is making art.

  Jock Sturges

  Art, Artist

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 04, 1998.

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

  Jock Sturges

  Kids, Artist, Checks

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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

  Jock Sturges

  Shame, Phenomenon

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. Macrh 4, 1998.

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Looks, Arms, Pants

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

  Jock Sturges

  Denial, Found, Apartment

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

  Jock Sturges

  Views, Cameras, Use

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• The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, People, Photograph

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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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.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Ifs And, People

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

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Skills, Concerned

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• 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

  Country, Art, Museums

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• Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

  Jock Sturges

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, Art, Photographer

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Two, People

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Artist, Thinking

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• 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

  Artist, Practice, Consumption

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• 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

  Ambition, People, Interesting

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• 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

  Artist, Want, Guilty

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

  Jock Sturges

  Birthday, Artist, Age

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Media, Shrinking

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