"I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art."

-- Sandy Skoglund

#Photography Quotes #Art Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.”
“The world will never discover a person who is hiding in the crowd.”
“That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.”

Source : "Fictional character: Adriana". "Midnight in Paris", www.imdb.com. 2011.
“Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.”
“I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.”
“I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.”
“It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.”
“You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.”

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