Famous quotes by Photographers

"The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"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"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

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

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever, whatever abuses are perpetrated on them"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"What I'm good at is making art"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Virtually always, I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"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"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Physical beauty is such a strange thing"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"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"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"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"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"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"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

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

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

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

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"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"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

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

Jock Sturges, Photographer

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

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

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