History Quotes by Catherine Opie

I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit…

— Catherine Opie

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable…

— Catherine Opie

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the…

— Catherine Opie

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being…

— Catherine Opie

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.

— Catherine Opie

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

— Catherine Opie

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

— Catherine Opie

I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.

— Catherine Opie

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

— Catherine Opie

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

— Catherine Opie

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist…

— Catherine Opie