Quotes by Peter Beard - Page 1

I am a parasite off beauty.
Peter Beard / Artist
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It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.
Peter Beard / Artist
Lying
Waste
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Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.
Peter Beard / Artist
Elephants
Humans
Logical
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The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
Peter Beard / Artist
Scabs
Whole
World
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In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.
Peter Beard / Artist
Accumulate
Heap
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I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash.
Peter Beard / Artist
Underwear
Wash
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My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.
Peter Beard / Artist
Family Me Never
Board
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Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.
Peter Beard / Artist
Conservation
Guilty
Avenue
Park
Poodle
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I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
Peter Beard / Artist
Mind Someone Who
Dilettante
Loves
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Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.
Peter Beard / Artist
Diaries
Secret
Useless
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I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
Peter Beard / Artist
Art School
Life Art Myself
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I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.
Peter Beard / Artist
Crazy
Machines
Thinking
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I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.
Peter Beard / Artist
Conservation
Sentimental
Acre
Buy
Con
Elephant
Lion
Mostly
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I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
Peter Beard / Artist
Atmosphere
Common Sense
Release
Ruin
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Life is just a flick of the fingers. Let's face it. And any little bit - you can expand it or enrich it, I think you want to push that and do it.
Peter Beard / Artist
Fingers
Little Bit
Face
Bit
Enrich
Expand
Push
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I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.
Peter Beard / Artist
Chance
Benefits
Looks
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An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.
Peter Beard / Artist
Proclaiming
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I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school.
Peter Beard / Artist
Art School
History Art School
Graduated
Joseph
Studies
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In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams - really a top, top artist that the 'New Yorker' was lucky to find and employ.
Peter Beard / Artist
Cartoon
Hero
High Level
Admired
Employ
My Number One
New Yorker
Yorker
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I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.
Peter Beard / Artist
Mother Me Parents
Advanced
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I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.
Peter Beard / Artist
Desire
Thinking
Writing
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I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.
Peter Beard / Artist
Decision
Forever
Life Good Your
Looking
Africa
Escape
Good Thing
Planner
Shoulder
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I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.
Peter Beard / Artist
Blinded
Bones
Elephants
Noon
Popping
Sun
Bright
Chicken
Freight
Walked
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We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.
Peter Beard / Artist
Doctors
Ecology
Adding
Billion
Decade
Elephant
Expense
Similar
Spin
Supposedly
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I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.
Peter Beard / Artist
Caring
Consciousness
Exaggerating
Irritated
Time Long Person
Photographed
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I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.
Peter Beard / Artist
Harassment
Predictable
Pressure
Stress
Wildlife
Wounded
Totally
Alert
Animals
Attack
Increasingly
Pushed
Subjected
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Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind of like the idea of nailing the thing down and not really showing too much about it. There's just so much you can take for collage nowadays.
Peter Beard / Artist
Footprint
Kind
Writing
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Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.
Peter Beard / Artist
Fashion
Photography
Thinking
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The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.
Peter Beard / Artist
Odds
Organized
Overwhelming
Sake
Spontaneity
Torture
Unnatural
Biologically
Family Marriage Children
Institution
Stacked
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I had some highlight moments in the early '60s when I used to do a lot of rubbings. I used Afta; it's an amazing chemical. If you pour it on something and rub, you get amazing results. Before that, I used lighter fluid and, well, I've always liked blood. Everybody thinks I am very sick, but the thing is, blood is better than any ink or paint.
Peter Beard / Artist
Moments
Sick
Thinking
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