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Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more read more
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, read more
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but read more
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than read more
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?
