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I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school.
- Peter Beard
#American
#Art
#History
#Know
#School
I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.
- Peter Beard
#Camera
#Me
#Mother
#Parents
#She
An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.
- Peter Beard
#Art
#Artist
#Mistake
#Serious
#Try
Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.
- Peter Beard
#Conservation
#Guilty
#Park
#People
I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
- Peter Beard
#He
#Means
#Mind
#Someone
#Who
The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.
- Peter Beard
#Children
#Family
#Marriage
#Odds
#Way
I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.
- Peter Beard
#Decision
#Escape
#Good
#Life
#My Life
It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.
- Peter Beard
#Just
#Lying
#Sleep
#Waste
#You
I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
- Peter Beard
#Art
#Far
#Life
#Myself
#School
We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.
- Peter Beard
#Diversity
#Great
#Human
#Nature
#People
Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.
- Peter Beard
#Elephants
#Like
#Logical
#Smart
#Very
Life is just a flick of the fingers. Let's face it. And any little bit - you can expand it or enrich it, I think you want to push that and do it.
- Peter Beard
#Face
#Fingers
#Life
#Push
#Want
I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash.
- Peter Beard
#Anything
#Kind
#Never
#Underwear
#Wash
The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.
- Peter Beard
#Beauty
#Last
#Left
#Nature
#Women
I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.
- Peter Beard
#Harassment
#Learning
#Pressure
#Stress
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