"I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia."

-- Martin Parr

#Interesting Quotes #People Quotes #Photographer Quotes

“America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.”
“If there is an â€˜overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate -- then action disfavoring that idea might â€˜un-skew,' rather than skew, public discourse.”
“They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?”
“My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.”

Source : Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company
“There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artistâ€”it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.”
“How was I gonna get an education, sitting right back of Bobby Ann Mason?”
“My future is righteousness.”
“Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.”

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