Francesca Woodman Quotes

• Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do.

  Francesca Woodman

  Real, Mind, Real Things

  "The Woodmans". Documentary, Biography, www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?

  Francesca Woodman

  Girl, Animal, Body

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• You cannot see me from where I look at myself

  Francesca Woodman

  Looks

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• I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.

  Francesca Woodman

  Delicate Things, Accomplishment, Leaving

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• Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

  Francesca Woodman

  Emotional, Long, States

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• I feel like I am floating in plasma
  I need a teacher or a lover
  I need someone to risk being involved with me.
  I am so vain
  and I am so masochistic.
  How can they coexist?

  Francesca Woodman

  Teacher, Risk, Needs

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• I wish i could change my mind
  as easily as I change socks
  But then I don't change socks so easily

  Francesca Woodman

  Mind, Wish, Don't Change

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• Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands

  Francesca Woodman

  Hands, Needs, Notes

  Francesca Woodman (2000). “Francesca Woodman. Catalogo della mostra (Providence-Roma-New York)”, p.23, Castelvecchi

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• THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE
  has nothing to do with melodrama
  It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions
  I was (am?) not unique but special.
  This is why I was an artist

  Francesca Woodman

  Unique, Artist, Special

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• A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

  Francesca Woodman

  Photography, People, Records

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• Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.

  Francesca Woodman

  Drawing, Glasses, Doors

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