Sarah Moon quotes
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“Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.”
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“To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.”
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“Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.”
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“For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.”
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“I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.”
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“[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.”
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“The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.”
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“Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.”
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“What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.”
-- Sarah Moon
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