"Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident."

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Source : "Blow-Up Brian De Palma & Taryn Simon in conversation". www.artforum.com. 2012.

Taryn Simon

#Photography Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Accidents Quotes

“Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.”
“That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.”

Source : Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster
“Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind.”
“The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!”

Source : "The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.
“Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms”
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

Source : "Gabriel García Márquez: a Life". Book by Gerald Martin, www.theguardian.com. 2008.
“I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.”

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