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photography art thinking
I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art. Carl Andre
photography stress conscious
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced. Aaron Siskind
photography self order
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder). Aaron Siskind
photography taken talking
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole. Aaron Siskind
photography simple together
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together. Aaron Siskind
photography touching feelings
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. Aaron Siskind
photography memories character
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction. Aaron Siskind
photography taken discovery
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me. Aaron Siskind
photography my-own
The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature. Aaron Siskind
art people minorities
People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority. Carol Kane
art discovery europe
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. Carol P. Christ
art lying voice
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history. Carlos Fuentes
art fall risk
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck. Carlos Fuentes
art thinking trying
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Carlos Castaneda
art pain warrior
Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man. Carlos Castaneda
artist firsts used
I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets. Carl Andre
art children thinking
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about. Carl Andre
art conspiracy abstract
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! Carl Andre
believe people challenges
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. Carol Moseley Braun
believe america people
I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people. Carol Moseley Braun
believe people rumor
I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't. Carlos Mencia
believe people looks
God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people. Carlos Mencia
believe moving hostile
I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value. Carlos Ghosn
believe dont-believe
Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do. Carlos Ghosn
believe warrior faces
... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value. Carlos Castaneda
believe mind arrogance
What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds. Carlos Castaneda
believe presidential campaigns
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes. Carl Bernstein