"I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message."

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Source : Roy DeCarava, Peter Galassi, Sherry Turner DeCarava, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1996). “Roy DeCarava, a retrospective”, ABRAMS

Roy DeCarava

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“I've already bought another house in Tangier and the one in Deauville has been for sale for some time. As for Yves's Saint Laurent apartment, it is being sold because he's dead. But I won't be furnishing my home from Ikea.”
“The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington, D.C., and the lack of action.”
“The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.”
“Iâ€™ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.”
“Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.”
“For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.”

Source : Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.173
“For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.”

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