Pieter Hugo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. Iâ€™m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Challenges #Nervous #Imagery
A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Inspiration
Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Photography #Art #Struggle
I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Kids #House #Obvious
It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means we have to start making dishonest work, which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Mean #Artist #Scary
I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Feelings #Guilt #Productive

There is a self-love solution for every challenge.
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador DalÃ . This was like my history.
I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

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