Catherine Opie quotes
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“I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.”
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“The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.”
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“The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.”
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“There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'”
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“I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.”
-- Catherine OpieSource : "Catherine Opie: Bearing Witness and the Sublime". Interview with Tracey Harnish, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 03, 2013.
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“I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.”
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“My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.”
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“I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.”
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“Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.”
-- Catherine OpieSource : "Viewer Q&A: Responses from Catherine Opie, El Anatsui, and Marina Abramović". Interview with Jonathan Munar, magazine.art21.org. Jun 7, 2012.
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“I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.”
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“I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.”
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“Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.”
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