Wendy Ewald quotes

“The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.”
-- Wendy Ewald

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“Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.”
-- Wendy Ewald

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“I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.”
-- Wendy Ewald

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“Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.”
-- Wendy Ewald

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“With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!”

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”

Source : Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.299, Columbia University Press

“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”

“I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.”

Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.

“Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press

“The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.”

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”

“Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!”

“No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.”