Philip Lorca Dicorcia Quotes

#1. In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#2. Both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

Kathryn Schulz

#3. School never teaches you about this mangled human slime, it slays me. You spend all your time learning the capital of Surinam while these retards carve their initials in your back.

D.B.C. Pierre

#4. You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

Peter Sellers

#5. Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#6. There's so much evidence vaccines could be the cause of autism,

Katy Evans

#7. Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

Isabel Paterson

#8. There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#9. Photography ... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#10. I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

Demetri Martin

#11. The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#12. [Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#13. After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalised by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons.

Louis De Broglie

#14. If there's been any use of nerve gas it's the rebels that used it. If there has been a use of chemical weapons it was Al-Qaeda that used the chemical weapons - who gave al-Qaeda the chemical weapons? Here's my theory, Israel gave them the chemical weapons.

George Galloway

#15. Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

J.G. Ballard

#16. The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a joke. In my case the problem is not that I don't question myself. It's just that I question other people even more ...

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#17. Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.

Hal Higdon

#18. If we can't face it, God can't fix it.

Catherine Austin Fitts

#19. Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#20. The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

Mary Pipher