"Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels like a natural moment for painting to look out, to reclaim that directive of picturing America."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Cynthia Daignault

#Photography Quotes #America Quotes #Identity Quotes

“In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiledâ€”even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.”

Source : George Vecsey (2008). “Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game”, p.95, Modern Library
“We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.”
“Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.”
“Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."”

Source : "Push, Push Against The Darkness: An Interview With Anne Waldman On The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.”
“Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!”
“It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.”
“Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.”

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