"Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it."

-- Clement Greenberg

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“I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.”
“If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost.”
“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.”
“For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do... [Lucifer]”
“If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that has not been fully revealed. We see that in actual life He does not treat all alike. For wise reasons known only to Himself He has given to some blessings to which they had no claimâ€¦and has withheld from others gifts which He was under no obligation to bestow.”
“The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.”

Source : Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.143, Basic Books
“I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.”

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