Chris Killip quotes

“I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.”
-- Chris Killip

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“The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people's lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.”
-- Chris Killip

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“I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.”
-- Chris Killip

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“I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.”
-- Chris Killip

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“First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.”

“Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.”

“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.”

“In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.”

“The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.”

“Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.”

Source : Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”

“I've always been a bit insecure about my smile, but its days like these where all I wanna do is smile.”

“My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.”