"If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world."

-- Tod Papageorge

#Artist Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Vision Quotes

“The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.”
“I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.”
“Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.”

Source : Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company
“You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.”
“You know, you don't get to survive that long without making some compromises.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.”
“I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.”
“Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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