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I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful.
“I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful.”
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“I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful.”
“I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.”
“I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.”
“You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”
“I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.”
“That is why people have jobs and pay checks... it helps keep you from unanswerable questions.”
“I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.”
“Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.”
“Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.”
“I have been opposed to ceremonies at the White House. It gives the impression that the court is subordinate to the executive, which I think is quite wrong.”
“I don't like weddings. I don't like ceremonies, and I show up wearing whatever the hell I want, if I go at all.”
“I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story.”