15 Alison Jackson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alison Jackson

English Artist

Born: May 15, 1960

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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. Alison Jackson

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The only people I really hate are parking attendants. Alison Jackson

Hate People Only Parking Really

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. Alison Jackson

Work Hope Art Mind Down Photograph Exactly Exactly The Same Primary Opens Advertising Makes Does Conclusive Least Up Art Work Sells Same Closes Product Your Using Function Things

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception. Alison Jackson

You Perception Own Rely Particularly How Interested Your

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. Alison Jackson

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

Photography Sense Complacency Medium Though Superficial Something True Leads Know False False Sense Deceitful Us Even Believing Necessarily

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. Alison Jackson

You Think Everything Constantly See Composing Through Pictures Text Lens

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. Alison Jackson

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Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path. Alison Jackson

Creative Path Follow Able Feel Always Been Very Lucky

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

Work Time You People Amazing Social Media Twitter Our Find Finding Perfect Crucial Also Process Lengthy Social Use Who Media

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.' Alison Jackson

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. Alison Jackson

Religion Experience Own Stars Once Status Through Taken Look Provide Celebrity Achieved Transcendental Us Holy Now

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. Alison Jackson

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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

Photography Something More Never Know Obtain Want Acts Suggesting

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