"I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve."

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Source : Interview with Matthew Witovsky, www.aaa.si.edu. November 15-17, 2009.

Lewis Baltz

#Photography Quotes #Distance Quotes #World Quotes

“It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.
“The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.”

Source : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”
“I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to meâ€•a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.”
“Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.”
“Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.”
“I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.”
“It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!”

Source : "Waiting for the Smile". Interview with Sam Kashner, Jessica Diehl, www.vanityfair.com. April 2012.

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