Richard Billingham famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.
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I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary intention. My intention is to make the best pictorial image I can.
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I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.
-- Richard Billingham
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Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.
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If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we won’t succeed. We can’t pursue the benefits of networks; the benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships.
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Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
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We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.
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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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