The Many Faces of Edie Sedgwick
(Notes and Commentary)
"Beauty.. The beauty that she never saw in herself that others did see in her. Everyone took advantage of Edie because of how gullible, naive, and trusting she was. Even through all of her trials and tribulations, turmoiled childhood, and substance abuse she pulled through until she could no longer continue. The model, Katelyn and I, wanted to depict this very emotion, Edie through her happiness and the very essence of her sorrow." - Jeffrey Sanchez (Photographer, Makeup Artist)
"I say the word death a lot.... Think of it as.. primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true."- Edie Sedgwick
"I made a mask out of my face because I didnt realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and strip it silver and blonde. All those maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me." - Edie Sedgwick
"It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way."- Edie Sedgwick
"I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system."- Edie Sedgwick
"I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident."- Edie Sedgwick
"Everything that happened to me has been a paradox for life. The very things that I should have done would have been the trap.The very things I might have given into, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the thing I found hardest to end. Cause I believed in something else". - Edie Sedgwick
"I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself."- Edie Sedgewick
"I act this way because that's the way I feel like acting. If people like it, fine. If they don't, that's their problem."- Edie Sedgwick
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”
―A.Warhol
―A.Warhol
"Edie Sedgwick, Girl on Fire"
