Loretta Lux famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

[My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a world we can't understand.
-- Loretta Lux

#Thinking #Looks #World
Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.
-- Loretta Lux

#Children #Garden #Self
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.
-- Loretta Lux

#Digital #Backgrounds #Composition
Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.
-- Loretta Lux

#Order #Ideas #Giving
My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can always recognize the children, but they are alienated from their real appearance and become more like metaphors.
-- Loretta Lux

#Children #Real #Thinking
I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.
-- Loretta Lux

#Photography #Care #Want
I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't enjoy working in the medium. It's very messy. I prefer to have it clean, with a nice computer.
-- Loretta Lux

#Nice #Suits #Painting
I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.
-- Loretta Lux

#Thinking #Media #Color
I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.
-- Loretta Lux

#Thinking #Costumes #Photograph

Think it over, think it under.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™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.
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.

Loretta Lux famous quotes

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