Alison Jackson Quotes

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• You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
• I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank…
• You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when…
• Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.
• A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
• Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.
• The only people I really hate are parking attendants.
• I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There…
• There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on…
• I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.
• Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is…
• Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.
• Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience…
• The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla…
• Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in…

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