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

- Jock Sturges

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

- Jock Sturges

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 a…

- Jock Sturges

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

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 th…

- Jock Sturges

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

- Jock Sturges

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

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

- Jock Sturges

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 lo…

- Jock Sturges