Candida Hofer famous quotes
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Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.
-- Candida Hofer -
I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where you can meet and communicate, where you can share or receive knowledge, where you can relax and recover. They are spas, hotels, waiting rooms, museums, libraries, universities, banks, churches and, as of a few years ago, zoos. All of the places have a purpose, as for the most part do the things within them.
-- Candida Hofer -
I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.
-- Candida Hofer
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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
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I always knew I was going to die in space.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
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The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
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Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.
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I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
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Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.
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Everyone has different layers to who they are.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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