Gu Cheng quotes

“The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.”
-- Gu Cheng

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“The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light.”
-- Gu Cheng

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“Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.”
-- Gu Cheng

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“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”

“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 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.”

“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”

“Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.”

“I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.”