Paolo Pellegrin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The connection, that's what's important - that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other.
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I’m more interested in a photography that is ‘unfinished’ - a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue. There are pictures that are closed, finished, to which there is no way in.
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In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense of making the world a better place, but to start a conversation with the world.
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It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels - obviously visual aesthetics, but also content and narrative in terms of the bigger picture. When document and metaphor come together.
-- Paolo Pellegrin
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When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
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If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.
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Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.
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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
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It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.
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