"I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs."

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Source : Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

Lee Friedlander

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“If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.”
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”
“I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.”
“It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument.”

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“When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.”
“By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.”
“In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.”
“Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.”

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