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"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made."
"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."
"When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist."
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