“I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.” ThinkingRelevant Author:Charlotte Cotton
“Photography's relationship with pornography is as old as photography. That kind of unholy relationship is formed from the very beginning, and there's a reason why: it's thoroughly enjoyable to be that voyeuristic. Voyeurism is a very old modality, and most of the history of photography is in some way related voyeurism.” KindReasonPhotographyPornographyEnjoyable Author:Charlotte Cotton
“I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.” ShoppingPsychiatristCheaperTammy Author:Tammy Faye Bakker
“I think the twenty-first-century modality is exhibitionism. Exhibitionism is our contemporary strategy for maintaining our boundaries, which is to be boundary-less - to put everything out there before somebody comes and violates or penetrates something that we're keeping sacred.” ThinkingStrategyBoundaries Author:Charlotte Cotton
“I don't think I had a bad influence on anybody. I made people feel better about themselves.” PeopleThinkingInfluenceFeel Better Author:John Waters
“Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.” TryingComedy Author:John Waters
“You have to think of a new way to completely surprise people who think they're hip. I always said you could make an NC-17 movie with no sex and no violence. Now I don't know what that could possibly be, but if you could think it up, you'd have a hit.” PeopleThinkingViolenceSurprise Author:John Waters
“What's fascinating to me is that in rich-kid schools, it's better to be gay. No one is discriminated against because they're gay in a rich-kid school. But in poor-kid schools, it's often not the same. So being gay is a class issue now.” SchoolGayBeing Gay Author:John Waters
“People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.” PeopleTryingRichMiddle Class Author:John Waters
“I love hipsters! Yes, I think they're hilarious. The really cute ones try to look ugly just to prove "I can't be ugly." Normcore was kind of funny too.” ThinkingTryingKindProveUglyCuteHipsterReally Cute Author:John Waters