Lillian Bassman famous quotes
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I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.
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[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.
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The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.
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Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.
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It was sexually a very different thing when [the models] worked with men. They felt a charge... I caught them when they were relaxed, natural, and I spent a lot of time talking to them about their husbands, their lovers, their babies.
-- Lillian Bassman
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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.
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The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.
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The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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