"At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists. It was an area other artists hadn't touched. Then, I went on from there. I manipulated my image - distorting it, brutalizing it. People thought I was mad, but I felt I had to tell these things. It gave me a kind of excitement."

-- Lucas Samaras

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #Mad Quotes

“I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.”
“I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.”
“Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.”
“I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year, and 99.99 percent of them are not good. I see no reason to do a new play just because it's new. It's like kissing your sister, a virtue, but so what? It seems to me more worthwhile to take a proven playwright and say, Write something for us.”
“Man lives by imagination.”
“At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.”
“You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.”
“When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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