How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it. ' Then I realized that was stupid
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it. . . . I didn't invent anything, I indicated.
I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.
I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.
[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.
It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.
I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.