Isa Genzken quotes

Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.
-- Isa Genzken

#Art #Strong #Artist

In some parts of the world, you get scrutinized for saying the wrong thing about art and in other regions, you get scrutinized for saying nothing at all.
-- Isa Genzken

#Art #World

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.
-- Isa Genzken

#Art #Vacation

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.
-- Isa Genzken

#Thinking #People #Sometimes

I believe that even an airport can be an inspiring place for an artist. A Nobel Prize laureate once said something along the lines of, "The more one travels, the more intelligent one becomes," however, I think that you can still travel a lot and remain sheltered.
-- Isa Genzken

#Believe #Artist #Intelligent

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.