Artists are part of the information process. . . Visual history is important in providing a record of … - Leon Golub

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It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

Leon Golub

Artists are part of the information process. . . Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.

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Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

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I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

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I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.

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The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated - to try to get some of this is important. . . The photofix inflects the almost literal shaping of a figure, changes of movement or potential movement, and a sense of occurrence or event.

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Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

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America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

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The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

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Susan Jacoby

I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans are not only more religious than a lot of other people in the world but that conversions are much more common here.

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