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Trevor Paglen Quotes

To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1974

Topics

Me Thinking Feel Doing Photography

I was kind of a scaredy-cat as a kid, and I made a very deliberate decision at some point that I was not going to let fear rule my life or determine my experience. That wasn't so easily accomplished.

Life Fear Decision Experience Kind

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Painting Stone Real Same Paint Does

More reforms will give more impetus to German industries to invest in India. German companies want to be treated on par with Indian companies, and creation of an equitable market is crucial for investments.

India Creation Want Will More Give

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

Music Great Listen Radio Punch Like

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Change Success Change The World World

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

Car Light Feet Driving Magic Stop

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.

People Believe Think Sometimes Want

Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their lives for one reason or another, mainly to do with the economics of the time.

Women Time Beginning Economics Voice

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Mirror Face Hard See Without Own

I do not take up films where I have nothing to do.

Shenaz Treasury

Nothing Up Take Where Films

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.

Never Give Up Music Sad Teacher Me

I want to make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States because we need Secretary Clinton's focus on making sure that we build an America where our values of inclusion and opportunity for everyone are the values that bring us together.

Opportunity Focus Together America

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