"One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits"

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Source : Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Manuel Alvarez Bravo”

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#Artist Quotes #Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.”
“I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.”
“It is you who makes me see what I really am.”
“Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.”
“Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.”
“There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.”

Source : Alton Brown (2012). “I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking”, p.21, Abrams
“To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.”
“If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.”

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