Taryn Simon Quotes

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

Taryn Simon

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

Paul Gibbons

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

Ann Leckie

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Taryn Simon

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

Stephen King

#9. 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

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

Rachel Vail

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#14. 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

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

Taryn Simon

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Chuck Daly

#20. 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

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

Taryn Simon

#22. 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

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

Taryn Simon

#24. 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

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

Diane Goode

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Pope Francis