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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.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  Me , Parents , Camera , Mother


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.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  You , History , Art , School


I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  Trouble , Drink , Lion , Elephant


I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  You , Me , Day , Black


My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  Me , Never , Family , Happy


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.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  Life , You , Think , Face


I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  You , Never , Anything , Underwear


In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  New , New York , Live , Stuff


I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  You , Time , Long , Caring


Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.

Author: Peter Beard - American Artist
  Like , Smart , Very , Logical


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