Taryn Simon Quotes

#1. Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

Taryn Simon

#2. God's faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.

Pope Francis

#3. I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.

Taryn Simon

#4. I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I'm petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!

Tanya Masse

#5. That's a great idea," said Erin. "We can hang them all over. Yuck!

Diane Goode

#6. As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.

Joanne Froggatt

#7. I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

Taryn Simon

#8. Rule number one of crime scene work: If it's wet and sticky and it ain't yours, don't touch it.
-Terry Cooper, crime scene specialist, Georgia Bureau of Investigation

Beverly Connor

#9. The majority of my work is about preparation.

Taryn Simon

#10. I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.

Andrea Dworkin

#11. The two championship years were that significant for me.

Chuck Daly

#12. You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context ... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.

Taryn Simon

#13. In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

Taryn Simon

#14. The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

Taryn Simon

#15. My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

Taryn Simon

#16. There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

Taryn Simon

#17. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.

Charles Murray

#19. The only righteous thing on the face of the earth is death. No one has ever bribed their way out of that. The earth takes us all: the good, the evil and the sinners. And that's all the justice you'll find in this world.

Svetlana Alexievich

#20. Kids are constantly evolving, learning, and growing. They aren't who they were yesterday.

Rachel Vail

#21. I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.

Taryn Simon

#22. A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Stephen King

#23. Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

Taryn Simon

#24. Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions ... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.

Taryn Simon

#25. Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#26. Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused ... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences ... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

Taryn Simon

#27. In that case," I said, "go fuck yourself." Which she could actually, literally do, in fact.

Ann Leckie

#28. That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.

Paul Gibbons