Witkin Quotes

#1. I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#2. If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#3. Ginny who lived her life with hair in the breeze, Stillman who lived his with it under his hat. And he loved her so much the worse for it.

Josh Weil

#4. I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

Jeff Tweedy

#5. My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#6. Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#7. I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculptor or painter could recreate, not even a Michelangelo or a Da Vinci.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#8. The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things ...

Joel-Peter Witkin

#10. Hoo! You're like a giant mood ring! I wonder if I can make different colors show up depending on where i touch you
- Nell Harris

Katie MacAlister

#11. Matthias handed over the bag. "What are you looking for?"
"A sedative," said the medik.
"Is that safe for a pregnant woman?"
"For me.

Leigh Bardugo

#12. I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#13. I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

David Lange

#14. 210. "Experiences do not come to us by chance, they are sent to us by Divine Mercy for our own perfection." ~

Abdu'l- Baha

#15. Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

Orson F. Whitney

#16. Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#17. My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

Lisa See

#18. I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#19. The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health
Try being wit somebody that wanna be somebody else.

Drake

#20. To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with these disjunctive, bizarre things ... I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#21. My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts ...

Joel-Peter Witkin