Sherrie Levine quotes

Sherrie Levine quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.”
-- Sherrie Levine

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“I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.”
-- Sherrie Levine

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“Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged,”
-- Sherrie Levine
“The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.”
-- Sherrie Levine

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“Maybe I should see things as they really are and not as I want them to be.”
-- Sherrie Levine

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“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”
“That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)”
“People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.”

Source : "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success". Book by Adam Grant, www.businessinsider.com. 2013.
“Isn't television glamourous?”
“A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.”
“The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.”

Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at Renew America rally in Alabama, www.keyesarchives.com. April 29, 2000.
“Words are good servants but bad masters.”
“It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.”
“It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.”

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