"[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross)."

-- Tod Papageorge

#Photograph Quotes #Passing Quotes #Dross Quotes

“I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.”
“Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”
“Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.”
“I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.”
“Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.”
“Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?”
“Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the prosecution.”
“Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.”

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