Wolf Vostell quotes

Wolf Vostell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Every human being is a work of art.”
-- Wolf Vostell

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“I declare peace as the greatest work of art.”
-- Wolf Vostell

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“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”
“Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."”
“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”
“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™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.”
“The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.”

Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.104, Univ of California Press
“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself”
“Any genuine work of art generates new work.”
“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”
“Truth comes to us mediated by human love.”
“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”

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