Pieter Hugo quotes

I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. I’m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Challenges #Nervous #Imagery

A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Inspiration

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Photography #Art #Struggle

I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Kids #House #Obvious

It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means we have to start making dishonest work, which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Mean #Artist #Scary

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.
-- Pieter Hugo

#Feelings #Guilt #Productive

There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.