Joel Peter Witkin Quotes

#1. I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.

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#2. My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts ...

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#3. To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with these disjunctive, bizarre things ... I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.

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#4. The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

Laurel Clark

#5. I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.

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#6. He's the first person I want to tell when somebody upsets me; my foot pressing on the accelerator, desperate to get home from work just to tell him, the moment I tell him, the moment his face lights up with fury on my behalf, it's better, it's fixed.

Liane Moriarty

#7. Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.

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#8. Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is barbed: if it comforts, it lies. Truth is an armed dancer.

Robert Grudin

#9. When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person's prayer through you.

Nouman Ali Khan

#10. I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

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#11. When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?

Richie Norton

#12. I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things ...

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#13. I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculptor or painter could recreate, not even a Michelangelo or a Da Vinci.

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#14. Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

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#15. A timely, interesting, educational approach to today's wine picture. Wine still makes a feast out of a meal, but in times of not so plenty we will enjoy a bottle that is more reasonable. This tome is a must-read for wine lovers as well as the trade.

Margrit Mondavi

#16. My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.

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#17. I certainly think the antagonism came out of a mistaken notion amongst the Indian people that the Chinese aggressed on us, and they thought, Indian people

Subramanian Swamy

#18. If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

Joel-Peter Witkin