Philip-Lorca diCorcia famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

#Interpretation
Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

#Photography #Borders #Levels
In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

#Photography #Hands #People
There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

#Photography #Reality #Facts
Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

#Photography #Thinking #Language
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

#Reality #Different #Looks
The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a joke. In my case the problem is not that I don't question myself. It's just that I question other people even more.
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

#Motivation #Artist #People
[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

#Photography #Artist #Hair

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
Hereâ€™s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. Thatâ€™s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

Philip-Lorca diCorcia famous quotes

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