Candida Hofer Quotes

I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where you can meet and communicate, where you can share or receive knowledge, where you can relax and recover. They are spas, hotels, waiting rooms, museums, libraries, universities, banks, churches and, as of a few years ago, zoos. All of the places have a purpose, as for the most part do the things within them.

Candida Hofer

Quotes to Explore

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

Samantha Mumba
- People
- Up
- Waiting
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Finley Peter Dunne
- Kind
- Purpose
- Lie
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

Barbara Ehrenreich
- Great
- Real
- Me
The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

W. Bruce Cameron
- People
- Life
- Truth
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

Randall Terry
- Church
- Lies
- Old
Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

Ibrahim Babangida
- Me
- Government
- Purpose