"No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world will not throw billions of dollars at photography the way it has at painting; and that is what makes it an exciting medium."

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Source : David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.127, Canongate Books

David Wojnarowicz

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“Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!”
“I find it very endearing when a girl is dorky because it takes a very brave person to act that way in front of people. And in every girl that I've been attracted to, I recognize the dorkiness about her because I think I have some in me. That makes me feel a lot more comfortable with her.”

Source : "90210 is back! Justin Deeley Spills On The New Episodes". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 13, 2012.
“Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them”
“Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.”
“I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.”
“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
“We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.”

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