Dennis Oppenheim Quotes
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
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You can’t be serious,” Eve said. “Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I’ve seen the movies.” "Eve,” Michael said. “Horror movies are not documentaries.
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Hannah: What's your plan? Claire: Go get him Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.
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Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne
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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
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There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.
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Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.
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I can photograph someone if I can touch them.
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The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
