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Stephen Sprouse

"I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing."

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"I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."
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"Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."
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"I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school."
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"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
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"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."
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"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
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"But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long."
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"When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art."
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