"I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture."

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Source : "'Class Pictures' of social and emotional complexity". Interview with Maureen Post, onmilwaukee.com. May 13, 2009.

Dawoud Bey

#Challenges Quotes #Culture Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.”
“Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.238, Basic Books
“I never expect I would become a K-pop star.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life.”

Source : "Kim Delaney Hides Some Sexy Secrets on Army Wives". Interview with Ileane Rudolph, www.tvguide.com. June 1, 2007.
“Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.”
“If you want to drop off the face of the earth, just be an assistant coach.”
“I'm just an Irish biddy.”
“Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.”

Source : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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