"Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print."

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Source : Irving Penn, Virginia Heckert, Anne Lacoste, J. Paul Getty Museum (2009). “Irving Penn: Small Trades”, p.18, Getty Publications

Irving Penn

#Years Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Liquid Quotes

“I'll be anybody's friend, but only because I want to be their friend, not because I need something from them. This kind of an attitude sometimes makes it so some people - who want something from me and can't have it because they're not nice people - have an influence that can make things not great sometimes. But I don't care, because those people will be gone in a year anyway.”
“Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm not really an art collector - I'm more of a person who picks up things. I have pieces by people like Gerhard Richter, for example, but then also others by unknown Japanese artists, and not many real art collectors do that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.”
“The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.”
“I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.”
“The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.”
“Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But thatâ€™s a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.”

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