Jeanloup Sieff quotes
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“There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.”
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“I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.”
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“I have been searching for time past all my life.”
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“I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.”
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“All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.”
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“The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.”
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“If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for my own pleasure - even if I then bewailed the vanished pleasure which my pictures brought back to me.”
-- Jeanloup Sieff
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Source : Adi Da Samraj (2005). “Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else”, p.3, North Atlantic Books
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“I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.”
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“Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.”
Source : A.J. Hartley, David Hewson (2014). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel”, p.52
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“Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.”
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“Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.”
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Source : Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
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“Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.”
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