Christophe Agou quotes
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“Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.”
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“With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.”
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“When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.”
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“The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.”
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“The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.”
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“Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth,”
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“Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.”
-- Christophe Agou
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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“As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.”
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“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
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