Hastrup William Quotes & Sayings

All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what's seen into something that it is not. — James Elkins

Now there are permanent gray smudges in Scotty's vision. He says he likes them
actually, what he says is: "I consider them a visual enhancement." We think they remind him of his mom. — Jennifer Egan

Beauty is not diminished by being shared. — Robert A. Heinlein

Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers. — Geraldine Laybourne

Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it ... I didn't invent anything, I indicated. — Annette Messager

Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I want you to be free. Strike off your chains! Strike up the band! Strike three you're out! Remember, there's nothing like Liberty, except Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Be free, now and forever. One and individual. One for all and all for me, and tea for two and six for a quarter ... — Groucho Marx

And as it went my tortured soul
(...) That all about me swirled the dust.

Deep in the earth I rested now,
Cool is its hands upon the brow
And soft its breast beneath the head
Of one who is so gladly dead. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant. — Rush Limbaugh