"I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search ..."

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Source : John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”

John Pfahl

#Artist Quotes #Mind Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny...”

Source : "Lesbianism: an act of resistance". Book by Cheryl Clarke, 1981.
“I want fifteen referees at this fightâ€¦because there ainâ€™t no one man who can keep up with the pace Iâ€™m gonna set except me”
“You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.”
“Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?”

Source : "Do You Believe In Gosh?". Comedy album by Mitch Hedberg, 2008.
“Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.”
“In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesnâ€™t bother you at all.”
“Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.”
“in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.”

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