"I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more."

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Source : Edward Weston, Charis Wilson (1993). “Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters”

Charis Wilson

#Waiting Quotes #Looks Quotes #Pleasant Quotes

“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”
“I'm Liberace without a piano.”
“Donâ€™t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.”
“I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.”

Source : "'This American Life,' en Español". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.
“If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”
“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.”
“Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.”

Source : Janet Malcolm (2011). “Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes”, p.12, Granta Books

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