Francesca Woodman quotes
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“I wish i could change my mind as easily as I change socks But then I don't change socks so easily”
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“I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?”
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“Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?”
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“Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do.”
-- Francesca WoodmanSource : "The Woodmans". Documentary, Biography, www.imdb.com. 2010.
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“Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands”
-- Francesca WoodmanSource : Francesca Woodman (2000). “Francesca Woodman. Catalogo della mostra (Providence-Roma-New York)”, p.23, Castelvecchi
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“You cannot see me from where I look at myself”
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“THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist”
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“I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.”
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“Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.”
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“A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.”
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“Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.”
-- Francesca Woodman
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