Judy Fiskin quotes

“I was trying to match my mental image of the world, rather than the world itself, and mental images of objects aren't full of detail. If you think house, you're going to get something very general... Dropping detail made the photographs more general, like mental images.”
-- Judy Fiskin

Source : Judy Fiskin, Christopher Knight (1988). “Judy Fiskin”, A R T Pr

#Thinking Quotes #House Quotes #Trying Quotes

“In my work, the information is the least important part. It's there, and the work wouldn't mean the same thing without it, but it isn't structured around the information. The most interesting part to me is the visual play... looking at this little universe of representation that I can make out of the world.”
-- Judy Fiskin

#Mean Quotes #Play Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder.... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.”
-- Judy Fiskin

Source : Judy Fiskin, Christopher Knight (1988). “Judy Fiskin”, A R T Pr

#Size Quotes

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.”

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”

“I sing around the house, in the shower”

“When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.”

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

“In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.”

“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.