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“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.”

Woody Allen

Every image is, at the least, a double entendre.

“It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.”

Diane Arbus

When my cat has a thought she lies down in such a way that the top of her head rests flat on the bed. As a result the thought seems to dissipate with happiness and well-being restored. I, on the other hand, have yet to master the technique.

“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don’t have film.”

Stephen Wright

To be an image maker you need to…. To be a photographer requires…. But, above all, you must be able to tolerate a certain amount of ambiguity in your life.

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”

Susan Sontag

Q: Which is most important, what an image conveys or what the viewer brings to it?

A: If you have to ask you can’t afford it.

“Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.”

Annie Leibovitz

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

Friedrich Nietzsche