“My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”
As quoted in Newsmakers (2002) by Laura Avery
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German-Australian photographer 1920–2004Related quotes

“Visitors to the expo were amused and fascinated by portrait painter Pricasso and his unique brush.”
[Daily News staff, Daily News, South Africa, Pole-dancing vixens keep visitors agog at Sexpo, 26 August 2011, 3, Independent Online]
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Inteview by Richard Covington, Salon, October 25, 1997, 2013-06-17 http://www.upstartfilmcollective.com/portfolios/jcharnick/mamet-museum/salon-interview.html,

Part 4: "The Abacus and the Rose" (p. 103)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)

Cocaine Decisions (1983) http://youtube.com/watch?v=RDEwJ2xlSXk
Context: I'll tell you what classical music is, for those of you who don't know. Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. And it's formula music, the same as top forty music is formula music. In order to have a piece be classical, it has to conform to academic standards that were the current norms of that day and age … I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in”
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/man-ray/prophet-of-the-avant-garde/510/ PBS episode of American Masters

Statement in Spring of 1972, while participating in the presidential campaign of George McGovern; as quoted at the official Cass Elliot website.
Context: Our job as entertainers is to ease some pain. So to begin with, you have to know what and where the pain is. I've never campaigned before and I wanted to be damn sure before putting my name behind anyone. I wrote to all the campaign officers to find out what they were. My issue is that it's all very well to sit back and complain but when it's your country you have a responsibility.