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Jock Sturges

"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."

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"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."

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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

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"The body has a mind of its own."

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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

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"Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!"

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"You can kill the body but not the spirit."

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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

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"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

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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."
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"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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"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."
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"I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it."
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"But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm."
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"I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same."
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"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress."
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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."
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"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
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"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."
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