Richard Billingham quotes
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“It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.”
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“I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary intention. My intention is to make the best pictorial image I can.”
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“I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.”
-- Richard Billingham
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“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”
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“Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?”
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“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE
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“The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!”
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