"We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's still possible to experience the Gothic period, not to mention the Romantic. Only nothing remains of the industrial age. So we thought that our photos would give the viewer the chance to go back to a time that is gone forever."

-- Bernd Becher

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“And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs”
“A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and spending patterns - the accumulation of a day's purchases, or spending over a week or a year. A curious mind asks the questions that open up the consumer to talk about her latent dissatisfactions, hopes, wishes, and dreams.”
“Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy. That sexy stuff just happened to be part of our wardrobe, and its fun. Not all of our wardrobe is like that, but it is part of the performance and the show. It takes a woman who knows herself to be able to work an outfit like that.”

Source : Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com. June 12, 2009.
“Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?”
“Failure is a word I don't accept.”
“I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.”
“Somebody gotta tell you this: Cancer kills way more Americans than any Arabic terrorist. We use more money to fight them than finding a cure, So a little kid sits there with his chemo-therapist. Hair falling out while his vital signs weaken... He'll be dead while his parent are in debt for his treatment.”
“They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.”

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