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I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being 'female' meant I couldn't be that - I couldn't be angry, loud, sullen. Being sad meant I was weak. Petra Collins
Sad Angry Age Young Sullen Weak Towards Like Felt Female Loud Very Young Age Being Depressed Agency Meant
When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc. Petra Collins
Woman Pleasant Hysterical She Labeled Anything Etc
I love working in groups - I think it makes each individual more powerful. Petra Collins
Love Think More Individual Powerful Makes Working Groups Each Each Individual
I really wanted to feel strong, I wanted my subjects to feel strong, but I didn't know how to do that. It's really hard for, I guess, every woman to not internalize misogyny. I just learned as I went on how to best capture my subjects without objectifying them. Petra Collins
Best Woman Strong Every Guess Feel Know Learned Without How Subjects Just Wanted Them Really Hard Internalize Capture
You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start. Petra Collins
Life You Try Job Girl Before Young Through Steps Know Go Get Just Want Anything Young Girls Your Start Career Set
My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home. Petra Collins
Time Home Space Mind Live Changing Blank Blank Slate Come Aesthetic Fixed Just Slate Need
If I have extra money, I always love to support my friends who're making art. Petra Collins
Love Art Money Extra Support Always Making Friends
Just being with a group of girls and experiencing sadness together - it's a pretty powerful thing. Petra Collins
Together Sadness Girl Group Pretty Powerful Powerful Thing Just Being Experiencing Thing
I think a way that feminist photographers work is turning what was the object into the subject and really making it our own. Petra Collins
Work Own Think Our Way Photographers Object Making Feminist Subject Turning Really
I think being collaborative is definitely more natural for people who are minorities in any sense - so people who aren't, like, white male artists - because we don't have the privilege to create art and work alone, usually. Petra Collins
Work Art Alone Natural People Sense White Think Collaborative Definitely Minorities More Like Because Male Male Artists Privilege Any Artists Being Create Who
Because I loved dance, I always need to be physical and moving, so photography that is more tactile made more sense. Petra Collins
Photography Dance Made Sense Physical More Tactile Because Always Loved Moving Need
I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird. Petra Collins
World Problems Guess Definitely Crisis Had Knew Weird Know Identity Sort Because Always Hips Lot Very Just Where Wanted Grew Really Body Skinny Who Thighs
We have this weird beauty standard where women, like, shouldn't grow: what we think is feminine is often what is also pre-pubescent. Petra Collins
Women Beauty Think Weird Like Also Feminine Often Where Standard Grow
I grew up on Facebook; it's a different realm I live in. For some people, this is inauthentic, but for me, it's all I know. Petra Collins
Me Facebook People Some People Live Some Know Up Different Grew Realm
Success doesn't happen overnight. Petra Collins
Success Overnight Happen
My mom had been a script supervisor in Hungary, but you can't just jump into that in Canada without knowing any English. She worked retail jobs and raised my sister and me while learning English. Petra Collins
Mom Me You Learning Hungary Sister Jobs Supervisor Retail Had Knowing She Without Been Jump Canada Any Just While Script Worked English Raised
I approach beauty the same way I approach clothing - I think people should do whatever to themselves to make them feel more comfortable in their skin. Petra Collins
People Beauty Whatever Skin Think Approach Way More Feel Make Comfortable Same Clothing Them Themselves Should
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Day Winter Solitude Rest Society Summer Day And Night Also Exercise Night Need
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. Philip Guston
Thoughts Memory Nothing Painting Sets Directly Come Know Knows Off Itself Sensations Anything Which Anywhere Might Paint Who Even Things Desire
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. Philip Guston
Art Painting Kind Some Miracle Seems Like Again Need Peculiar
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. Philip Guston
Work Long Positions Air Destined Arbitrary Vanishes Feel Until Am Falls Moment Paint Stretch
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. Philip Guston
You Painting State Inspired Puts Like Look Any Gong
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? Philip Guston
Experience Made Painting Sets Colors Know Knows Off Paint Who Even Desire
You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form. Pierre Bonnard
You Severe Drawing Logic More Color Than Form Reason
I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing. Pierre Bonnard
Time Nothing Everything Entering Give Sees Never Impression Trying Same Done Same Time Room
It is still color, it is not yet light. Pierre Bonnard
Light Color Still
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