Hofer Quotes

#1. Page8 / FOREWORD by Philip Hofer:
"His problem is space, not inspiration; time, not initiative.

Fernando Zobel

#2. I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

Cindy Sherman

#3. I have an opinion about holy war, which in general I must keep to myself. I have no wish to be known as a heretic. It is ... that if a war can be holy, then God cannot. At best a war can only be necessary.

Louis De Bernieres

#4. Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time ... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.

Candida Hofer

#5. But, Jesus, Tommy, what do you expect me to say? I grew up with you. When we were kids your fly was open more often than the twenty-four-hour laundromat. If your dick had been a gun you could have outdrawn Doc Holliday.

Bart Yates

#6. I think soul is soul. I don't see new soul as any different to old soul.

Paloma Faith

#7. I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

Bruce Willis

#8. Reality just gets in the way of achieving goals.

James Hofer

#9. I have no right to judge anyone,
but I have the right to love everyone.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Be like a fresh flowing stream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

Francois Rabelais

#12. There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

Baz Luhrmann

#13. All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Moore

#14. The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

#15. I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

Candida Hofer