Loretta Lux Quotes

#1. My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can always recognize the children, but they are alienated from their real appearance and become more like metaphors.

Loretta Lux

#2. Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Gloria Naylor

#3. I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

V.E Schwab

#4. I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.

Loretta Lux

#5. Something that harms you
cannot benefit you ...
Cigarette , Alcohol , Tobacco etc

Adil Adam Memon

#6. I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

Loretta Lux

#7. [My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a world we can't understand.

Loretta Lux

#8. I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't enjoy working in the medium. It's very messy. I prefer to have it clean, with a nice computer.

Loretta Lux

#9. Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

Glen Campbell

#10. Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.

Loretta Lux

#11. I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture ... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.

Loretta Lux

#12. Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

Alan Cohen

#13. The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

Loretta Lux

#14. We become like those pious people who, over time, accumulate a sense of their own virtuousness so powerful as to make them believe the bad things they do are virtuous too.

Jordan Ellenberg

#15. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.

Walter Pater