Sandy Skoglund Quotes

#1. I can't go back to being who I used to be!'
Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.
'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#2. The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

Nelson Mandela

#3. My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.

Sandy Skoglund

#4. I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.

Sandy Skoglund

#5. The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things ... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.

Sandy Skoglund

#6. I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

Kate Moss

#7. Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

Sandy Skoglund

#8. I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

Alicia Keys

#9. But most often she watched the candles as if their outcome held her own, the flames almost extinguishing themselves, but, by some greed of oxygen, persisting.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. At times like this it's traditional that a hero comes forth," said the President of the Guild of Assassins. "A dragon slayer. Where is he, that's what I want to know? Why aren't our schools turning out young people with the skills society needs?

Terry Pratchett

#12. It is ever the case in war that beauty is destroyed in the stampede for victory." His

Oliver J. Tooley

#13. Percy: I'll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids' head into the toilets. It's nice that some things never change.

Rick Riordan

#14. Survival isn't all there is to life

Sunday Adelaja