Pieter Hugo quotes
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“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.”
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“A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.”
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“Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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
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“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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“King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.”
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Source : "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.
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“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”
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“I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.”
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Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
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