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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt read more
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's read more
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to read more
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from read more
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
