Jock Sturges People Quotations

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.

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

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

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.