Grannan Quotes

#1. The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you.

Frederick Lenz

#2. In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

Jerry Saltz

#3. In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

Andy Stanley

#4. I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.

Katy Grannan

#5. This is the way photography can be cruel ... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.

Katy Grannan

#6. Stop thumping me, you fuck!

Abigail Roux

#7. Use - to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France.

Charles Dickens

#8. Don't improve it into a flop!

Samuel Goldwyn

#9. We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

Miguel Syjuco

#10. The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

Franz Kafka

#11. We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.

Robert Harris

#12. I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.

Margaret Thatcher

#13. We have all heard the expression they wear their emotions on their sleeve, but most don't realize they are actually worn over their entire body.

D.S. Luca

#14. There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

Katy Grannan

#15. There is a precise cleverness which itself is unjust; And there is one who is offensive that justice may be revealed.

Anonymous

#16. Life is too short to care about what other people says and thinks about you. So live life and give them something to talk about.

Marlene Hansen

#17. Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

Fran Lebowitz

#18. I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.

Katy Grannan

#19. It's always something when you let other people in your world.

James Lileks