"Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations."

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Source : "Viewer Q&A: Responses from Catherine Opie, El Anatsui, and Marina Abramović". Interview with Jonathan Munar, magazine.art21.org. Jun 7, 2012.

Catherine Opie

#Light Quotes #Photograph Quotes #Situation Quotes

“When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.”
“Theatre is fakeâ€¦ The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.”
“First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.”
“By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West”
“They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.”
“Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.”
“I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.”

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