"I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy."

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Source : "Blow-Up Brian De Palma & Taryn Simon in conversation". www.artforum.com. 2012.

Taryn Simon

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“I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.”

Source : "Keanu Reeves Goes to The Lake House". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. June 15, 2006.
“The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faithâ€”perfect faith, as it turns outâ€”and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.”
“I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.”
“Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.”
“To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.”
“What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.”
“It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. To write about those things brings this satisfying feeling as a creative person. There's a lot of music out there that's like, "I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black," and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content.”

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