"As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur."

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Source : "Advice for Portrait Photographers". Interview with Jim Casper, www.lensculture.com.

Todd Hido

#Artist Quotes #Air Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And she had always lived somehow with that dream. And that is why, despite the fact that she became one of the most unusual and outstanding stars of all time, she herself was never satisfied. When she came to New York, she began to perceive the possibilities of really accomplishing her dream, of being an actress.”
“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”
“After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's a huge gap in the market where you have people who develop cookware but who don't actually cook.”

Source : Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2012.
“We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didnâ€™t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.”

Source : "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" by Tom Dyckhoff, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 12, 2007.
“Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.”

Source : "10 bizarre divorce settlements" by Ethan Trex, edition.cnn.com. January 04, 2010.
“The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.”
“I love someone who tries to boss me around.”
“It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (1966). “Letters”

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