"Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight."

-- Abelardo Morell

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“By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.”
“It's not going to happen if you wait for the boss to tell you to make it happen.”
“Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.”
“Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.”
“John asked me to dance and I nearly died. Bingo! I then amazed myself by being very cool, calm and collected outwardly-inside I was out of this world. The dance was slow and smoochy. I was aloof and John, I think, was slightly embarrassed. It was all very painful and beautiful at the same time. The remaining students were looking on with puzzled expressions at such an unlikely combination.”

Source : Cynthia Lennon (1980). “A twist of Lennon”, Avon Books
“I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.”
“The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.”
“To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.”

Source : Virginia Heckert, Judy Fiskin, John Divola (2011). “Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin”, p.16, Getty Publications

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