"I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of the image to give the viewer something they might not interpret or surmise, due to their educated way of looking at images, and reading them for their emotional, psychological, and/or sociological values. So I would start to interject these things that the photograph would not speak of and that I felt needed to be revealed, but that couldn't be revealed from just looking at an image."

-- Lorna Simpson

#Reading Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.”
“Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.”

Source : "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 8, (p. 204), 1969.
“I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.”

Source : Interview with Marion Hume, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.
“Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.”
“I hate wack niggas, I should really slap niggas.”
“Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings”
“Great leaders are never too proud to learn.”
“[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.”

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