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My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is…
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I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into…
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I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
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Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures
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My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine…
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I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or…
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My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of…
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I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these…
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My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search…
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It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the…
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I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the…
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I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
— Gregory Crewdson
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Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy…
— Anish Kapoor
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Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental…
— Herbert Read
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If geography is prose, maps are iconography,
— Lennart Meri
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I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an…
— Tom Ford
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and…
— Polly Toynbee
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People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time,…
— Zack Snyder
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My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the…
— Florence Welch
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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
— James Wolcott
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Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture.…
— James Wolcott
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I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss…
— Jeanette Winterson
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