"At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings."

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Source : Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

Lee Friedlander

#Ideas Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.”
“Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.”
“If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.”
“With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...”
“Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.”
“If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.”
“I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.”

Source : Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk
“Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just have to choose between being proletarian or middle-class. Those kinds of things do not exist anymore. Today working class boys can play football and become multimillionaires. On football! There are no longer classes, who say that we are poor, we are suppressed by you etc.”

Source : Source: sturm-lie.be

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