Michael Snow quotes
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“Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.”
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“When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.”
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“If you think too much in the music you are too late.”
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“I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.”
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“The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.”
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“Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?”
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“There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.”
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“To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.”
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“I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.”
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“I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.”
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“I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.”
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“The idea that recording itself is an instrument.”
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“Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.”
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“Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.”
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“The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.”
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“Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).”
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“Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.”
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“You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.”
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“When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.”
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“It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.”
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“We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.”
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“I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.”
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“I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.”
-- Michael Snow
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