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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
Explore more quotes by Jock Sturges
"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."
"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."
"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."
"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."
"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."
"That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is."
"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable."
"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."
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