Author Profile
Petra Collins
1992 • Canadian • Artist
61
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Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesI think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional - if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch.— Petra Collins
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
There's definitely a romanticism of youth, like, everywhere. Specifically with women, they kind of only exist between the age of 15 to 25.— Petra Collins
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
I get why feminism can be intimidating; sometimes it can seem like this exclusive club.— Petra Collins
People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.— Petra Collins
I'm so pro-selfie because I think it's a tool that allows girls to create images of their own and of themselves.— Petra Collins
The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women have been able to control, create, and publish images of themselves.— Petra Collins
How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they're looking in the mirror.— Petra Collins
That's what I look for in models: Someone who can tell a story and has a presence in front of the camera.— Petra Collins
Social media has been such a big important thing for young artists and minorities because it's a community to get noticed. It's having an audience that was never there before.— Petra Collins