Hilton Kramer quotes

Hilton Kramer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.”
-- Hilton Kramer

Source : "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". 1989.

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“Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past.”
-- Hilton Kramer

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“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We live by promises not by explanations.”
“I've got more class than most.”
“At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.”
“Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. Theyâ€™re inseparable.”

Source : Jim Stengel (2012). “Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies”, p.1, Random House
“The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum”

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