"There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything."

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Source : Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Lucy R. Lippard, St. Louis Art Museum (1997). “Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

Lucy R. Lippard

#Photography Quotes #Way Quotes #Responding Quotes

“I've recently learned not to take things personally. We can get offended by anything if we want to.”
“We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments in both producing and consuming nations prepare now for that time. We should not cling to crude down to the last drop â€“ we should leave oil before it leaves us. That means new approaches must be found soon..... The really important thing is that even though we are not yet running out of oil, we are running out of time.”
“There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.”
“The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.”
“Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.”
“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.”
“One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
“Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.”

Source : Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.94, Penguin

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