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I open doors, I close doors,” he wrote. He loved no one, he loved everyone. He loved sex, he hated sex. Life is a lie, truth is a lie. His thoughts ended with a healing wound. “I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.” His manifesto as an artist.
Patti Smith about Robert Mapplethorpe
If you’re kinda like me and had the impression that you’re not particularly talented at anything you never get stuck on one thing. I do whatever I want and just ask for help. After all, they know I’m an idiot.
Paul Budnitz
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
Andrei Tarkovsky in his book Sculpting in Time
Art photography is usually a device to give importance to mediocrity.
Elliott Erwitt
(Source: ideastap.com)
