Coplans Quotes & Sayings

I wondered why ordinary words seemed so exotic when they were used in relation to numbers. Amicable numbers or twin primes had a precise quality about them, and yet they sounded as though they'd been taken straight out of a poem. — Yoko Ogawa

There is no such thing as guilt-free eating. — Dan Barber

When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words. — Taitetsu Unno

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom — Iris Murdoch

The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every single photograph of his is about classical notions of beauty, of young beautiful black men, young beautiful women, and he selects subjects who are essentially interesting and good-looking and extremely physical. I can't stand them. — John Coplans

My photographs recall the memories of the human race. — John Coplans

He would live to see people praised for things that were not worthy of praise, simply because truth was seen to be bad for their feelings. — Richard Flanagan