Jeff Wall quotes
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“IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,”
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“The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.”
-- Jeff WallSource : Jeff Wall, Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria) (2003). “Jeff Wall: photographs”, Walther Konig
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“I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.”
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“A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.”
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“One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.”
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“If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.”
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“I begin by not photographing.”
-- Jeff WallSource : "Jeff Wall works the crowds and critics" by Christine Finn, www.wired.com. December 11, 2007.
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“Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.”
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“Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.”
-- Jeff WallSource : "Jeff Wall and Lucas Blalock: A Conversation on Pictures". Interview with Lucas Blalock, aperture.org.
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Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.”
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“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
Source : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese. Chapter 6: "My Abyssinia", 2009.
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