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Francesca Woodman Quotes

You cannot see me from where I look at myself

You cannot see me from where I look at myself

Francesca Woodman
Looks

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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