Joel-Peter Witkin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Powerful #Before Death #Lasts
Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Miracle #Boring #Okay
I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things...
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#World #Bizarre
I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Dust #Connections #Cosmos
My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts...
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Impact #Doubt #Unreality
My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Purpose #Wonder #Creation
I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Confusion #Chaos #Clarity
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Matter #Spirit #Someday
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Artist #People #Realizing
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of one day seeing it all. Seeing in its total form, while wearing the mask, from the distance of death. And there, in the eternal destiny, to seek the face I had before the world was made.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin

#Distance #Destiny #One Day

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