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Jock Sturges

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants."

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Donna Grant

"The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind."

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Donna Grant

"Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone."

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Donna Grant

"For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolutionary sense, since a woman invests a good deal of time and effort -a nine month long, risky, strenuous pregnancy, in each offspring. Naturally she has to be very discerning in her choice of sexual partners."

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Donna Grant

"We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion."

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Donna Grant

"As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus."

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Donna Grant

"There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival."

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Donna Grant

"As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them."

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Donna Grant

"The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort."

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Donna Grant

"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."

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Jock Sturges
"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."

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Jock Sturges
"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."

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

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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 there's an erotic aspect to that."

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

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Jock Sturges
"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."

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

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Jock Sturges
"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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Jock Sturges
"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."

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Jock Sturges
"Physical beauty is such a strange thing."

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