Francesca Woodman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I wish i could change my mind as easily as I change socks But then I don't change socks so easily
-- Francesca Woodman

#Mind #Wish
I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?
-- Francesca Woodman

#Teacher #Risk #Floating
Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?
-- Francesca Woodman

#Girl #Animal #Body
Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do.
-- Francesca Woodman

#Real #Mind
Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands
-- Francesca Woodman

#Hands #Needs #Notes
You cannot see me from where I look at myself
-- Francesca Woodman

#Looks
THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist
-- Francesca Woodman

#Unique #Artist #Special
I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.
-- Francesca Woodman

#Accomplishment #Leaving #Trying
Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.
-- Francesca Woodman

#Emotional #Long #States
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
-- Francesca Woodman

#Photography #People #Records
Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.
-- Francesca Woodman

#Drawing #Glasses #Doors

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