Catherine Opie famous quotes

04-14-2025

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.
-- Catherine Opie

#Sunset #Sunrise #Sunrise And Sunset
The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.
-- Catherine Opie

#Photography #Sunset #Sunrise
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
-- Catherine Opie

#Ideas #Documentaries #Photographer
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'
-- Catherine Opie

#Art #Gay #Aesthetic
I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.
-- Catherine Opie

#Kind #Supporter
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
-- Catherine Opie

#Home #Hard Times #Giving
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
-- Catherine Opie

#Dad #Conservative #Problem
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
-- Catherine Opie

#Identity #Culture #Construction
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.
-- Catherine Opie

#Light #Photograph #Situation
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
-- Catherine Opie

#Home #School #Kids
I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.
-- Catherine Opie

#Looks #Littles #Driving
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
-- Catherine Opie

#Dream #Real #Land

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