Skoglund Quotes

#1. There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life.
Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

Gayle Forman

#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. Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.

Jane Smiley

#6. In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

Donnie Wahlberg

#7. Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

Vernon Reid

#8. True poverty does not come from God.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#9. Everyone can sing. Some better than others. I fall into the 'others' category.

Maureen Smith

#10. 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

#11. When I say 'practice' I don't mean
repeating an act until you get it right. In this use, it means to instill regular discipline to accomplish a specific task, ritual without which we feel incomplete, or that our experience of each day is less.

S. Kelley Harrell

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

Sandy Skoglund

#13. If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

Charlotte Rampling

#14. Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

Mena Suvari

#15. There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless..

Niccolo Machiavelli