Pieter Hugo Quotes
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It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means we have to start making dishonest work, which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature.
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I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on.
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Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.
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I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. I’m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable.
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A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.
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I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.
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