Quotes by Alison Jackson - Page 1

The only people I really hate are parking attendants.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Parking
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I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.
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Ridicule
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I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Britain
Sadder
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Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Political Beliefs
Beliefs
Inform
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I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Perception
Rely
Particularly
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You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
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Perception
Rely
Proved
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I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.
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Privacy
Your Important People
Bore
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I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.
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Perception
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A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Thinking Look People
Photographs
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If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.
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Composing
Lens
Text
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It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.
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Fake
Unlikely
Always Fun More
Celebrities
Politicians
Somehow
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Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.
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Lenses
Mobile
Samsung
Video
Phone
Video Camera
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I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Brad
Fabulous
Photograph
Brad Pitt
Celebrities
Good-Looking
Pitt
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Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Suggesting
Acts
Never Know More
Obtain
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Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.
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Photographs
Whereas
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I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
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Housewife
Young Age
Settle
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I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often.
Alison Jackson / Artist
People More Wish
Photographs
Drawings
People Wish More
Suppose
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I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.
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Canon
Good Me Remember
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When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.
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Diana
Enormous
Hysterical
Mourning
Princess
Death People Way
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Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.
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Observing
Ultimate
Warhol
Watched
Lens
Listened
Participate
Voyeur
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Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.
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Holy
Transcendental
Achieved
Status
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Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.
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Real Life
Life Work Look
Celebrities
Gap
Images
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Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Complacency
Deceitful
Photography
Superficial
Believing
False
False Sense
Leads
Medium
Necessarily
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I go up to people and ask if I can use them in my photos. Occasionally it is the person in question, as happened with James Hewitt. How embarrassing. He just laughed and said, 'You can't afford me.'
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Embarrassing
Laughed
Use Me People
Me People Person
Afford
James
Occasionally
Photos
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I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.
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Contemporary
Museums
Photographs
Concept
Galleries
Programs
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Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It's amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Crucial
Lengthy
Social Media
Time Work Amazing
Work Time Amazing
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I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.
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Donkey
Happily
Ride
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When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Convince
Plausible
Preparing
Photographs
Character I Am People
Real People
Viewer
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I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.
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Politicians
Images
Public Figure
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I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.
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Housewife
Young Age
Settle
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Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.
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Advertising
Function
Photograph
Sells
Art Work
Closes
Conclusive
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Least
Opens
Primary
Product
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I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Angle
Caricatures
Perception
Satirical
Traditional
Traditional Way
Twist
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It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.
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Appearance
Faces
Realistic
Absorb
Always Yourself Look
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There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Myth
Wall
Bubble
Burst
Celebrities
Covers
Magazine
Royals
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I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Queens
Beans
Blank
Fabulous
Fascinated
Mystique
Royal
Royal Family
Too Much
Wales
Certain Extent
Extent
William
Queen
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You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.
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Fake
Had Enough
Living Room
Screens
Seconds
Syria
Images
Programme
Switch
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Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating... I mean, dreadful.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Fascinating
Iconic
Imagery
Permit
Worship
Visual
Bin
Bomb
Buildings
Chopped
Dreadful
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The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives.
Alison Jackson / Artist
Cult
Goddess
Imagery
Replaced
Revolutionary
Shorthand
Wicked
Witch
Visual
Cast
Celebrities
Cultural
Formed
Marilyn
Narratives
Parker
References
Shared
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