Leon Golub quotes
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“Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.”
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“I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.”
-- Leon GolubSource : Leon Golub (1997). “Leon Golub: do paintings bite? : selected texts 1948-1996”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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“Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.”
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“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.”
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“The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated - to try to get some of this is important... The photofix inflects the almost literal shaping of a figure, changes of movement or potential movement, and a sense of occurrence or event.”
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“People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to know what Kissinger looks like? Well, the photograph tells us one version; I'm trying to tell it also, but differently.”
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“Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.”
-- Leon Golub
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Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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“Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.”
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“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
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Source : "I want to be alone. Oh really?" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.
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