Jock Sturges

“I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.”

“Physical beauty is such a strange thing.”

“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.”

“But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.”

“We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.”

“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.”