Deborah Turbeville famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In my pictures, you never know, thatâ€™s the mystery. Itâ€™s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. Itâ€™s fashion in disguise.
-- Deborah Turbeville

#Fashion #Want #Suggestions
A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.
-- Deborah Turbeville

#Girl #Art #Mistake
In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.
-- Deborah Turbeville

#People #Style #Fascination
I destroy the image after I've made it, obliterate it a little so you never have it completely there.
-- Deborah Turbeville

#Littles #Made #Made It
I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.
-- Deborah Turbeville

#Fashion #World #Photograph
I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.
-- Deborah Turbeville

#Eerie #Atmosphere #Location

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?
The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.
Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.

Deborah Turbeville famous quotes

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