|
|
Library Quotation's quo0ta0tion (kwÅ-tE2shõn) n. Abbr. quot. 1. The act of quoting. 2. A passage quoted. 3. An explicit reference or allusion in an artistic work to a passage or element from another, usually well-known work. Collected by Jochen Brennecke
"What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself." "Dying is pointless, you have to know how to disappear." Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher, New York, 2005 "The photographer in Blow Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part of the meaning of Blow Up" Michelangelo Antonioni, Director, Blow Up, UK 1966 "The object does change into something else, because we make it change. We manufacture realities. The raw material remains the same, but our art gives it a form that makes it into something not the same." Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, Penguin Books, New York 2001 "Anything that springs from thought is conditioned, is of time, of memory; therefore it is not real." Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom From the Known, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1969 "Nam June Paik: Watch with your right eye your left eye" John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts, Guggenheim Museum, quoted Nam June Paik, Memorial service, New York 2006 "He is one of the greatest modern painters because he taught artists to portray their own time, to avoid an outdated mythology, and to create their own myth." Alexander Lieberman about Cézanne, The Artist In His Studio, Random House, New York 1988 "...either their surfaces are expansive and push outward in all directions, or their surfaces contract and rush inward from all directions. Between these two poles you can find everything I want to say" Mark Rothko, in a conversation with Alfred Jensen in 1953 "New meanings require new techniques" Jackson Pollock, in an interview "The photography is at the end. We must stop finally to look like a camera. A camera relates everything. I believe to have understood, what knows the photography - and which not. And today, owing to the possibilities of the digital treatment of pictures, the terms of truthfulness and reality dissolve with this medium in air. I decided to only paint. One can never trust a photography more. It gives at a certain place at a certain time to have developed - nevertheless that can be also a pure invention." David Hockney, 2005 (Kunstmagazin "Monopol") "Electronic images have grown up. They are more beautiful and more detailed and more seductive than ever. They have also finally left behind the idea of the 'original'. Every copy is now identical to the original, every electronic image is available and reproducible almost everywhere in the world simultaneously. Electronic images are therefore more beautiful and more accessible than ever, but they are not necessarily more trustworthy. The digital image can be manipulated in every possible sense, and therefore can be falsified in every possible way. As there is no more original, there is also no more proof of 'Truth'. The digital electronic image has finally made the distance between 'reality' and 'secondhand reality' wider than ever. It has maybe even broken the link." Wim Wenders, "The Act of Seeing", 1997 (Published by Faber & Faber) "The synthetic image is free of the limitations of both human and camera vision. It can have unlimited resolution and an unlimited level of detail. It is free of the depth-of-field effect, this inevitable consequence of the lens, so everything is in focus. ...From the point of view of human vision, it is hyperreal. And yet, it is completely realistic." Lev Manovich, "The Language of New Media", 2002 "A photograph is only a fragment, and with the passage of time its moorings come unstuck. It drifts away into a soft abstract pastness, open to any kind of reading (or matching to other photographs). A photograph could also be described as a quotation, which makes a book of photographs like a book of quotations." Susan Sontag, "On Photography", 1973 "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." Oscar Wilde, Irish poet , "The Decay of Living", 1891 "The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction... The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: That is, the hyperreal... which is entirely in simulation." Jean Baudrillard, Philosopher, Simulations, Paris, 1983 "With every human being a new world is born which did not exist before he saw it, which will never exist again when death close his eyes. To present the world, which is nothing but life as seen by the induvidual, is the aim of the artist. They are the story tellers of some foreign land which they alone have seen and which they alone can depict for the benefit of others. To listen to the inner voice, to be true to themselves, to obey nobody, that is their law...they alone are true Secessionists." Sadakichi Hartmann, Writer, Critic in Camera Notes and Camera Work, New York ("The Photo-Secession Exhibition at the Carnegie Art Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, 1902) "It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience." David Lynch, Director, Writer, Actor, Artist. (IMAGES by David Lynch. Copyright (C) 1995. Published by Hyperion) "What a beautiful hour of the day is that of twilight when things disappear and seem to melt in each other, and a great beautiful feeling of peace overshadows all. Why not, if we feel this, have this feeling reflect itself in our work?" Edward Steichen, Painter, Photographer ("The American School") "Museum is old-fashioned blather" Martin Kippenberger, in conversation with Jutta Koether, Berlin 1981 "For it is the object which sees us, the object wich dreams us. It is the world wich reflects us, it is the world which thinks us. This is the basic rule." Jean Baudrillard, Photographies 1985-1998, Graz 1998 "Leibniz*, that mathematical spirit, saw in the mystic elegance of the binary system that counts only the zero and the one, the very image of creation. The unity of the supreme Being, operating by binary function in nothingness, would have sufficed to bring out of it all the beings." (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer and thinker, 1911-1980 *Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician, 1646-1716 [continued] |
| go back ... |
