Sarah Moon Quotes

• I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

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  Fiction, Situation

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• Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

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  Photography, Fashion, Order

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• I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

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  Photography, Believe, Black And White

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• [Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.

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  Photography, Eye, Grace

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• The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

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  Thinking, Certain, Interest

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• To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

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  Childhood, Creative

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• Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

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  Photography, Giving, Stories

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• I never photograph reality.

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  Reality, Photograph

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• What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

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  Information, Given, Aim

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• For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

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  Firsts, Happens

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• How can one live without hope and longing?

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  Longing, Without Hope

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• Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

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  Sometimes, Enough

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