Francesca Woodman Quotes & Sayings

I wish i could change my mind
as easily as I change socks
But then I don't change socks so easily — Francesca Woodman

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state ... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good. — Francesca Woodman

I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things. — Francesca Woodman

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner ... ? — Francesca Woodman

Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands — Francesca Woodman

Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond. — Francesca Woodman

I feel like I am floating in plasma
I need a teacher or a lover
I need someone to risk being involved with me.
I am so vain
and I am so masochistic.
How can they coexist? — Francesca Woodman

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc. — Francesca Woodman

You cannot see me from where I look at myself — Francesca Woodman

THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE
has nothing to do with melodrama
It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions
I was (am?) not unique but special.
This is why I was an artist — Francesca Woodman

Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do. — Francesca Woodman