Sarah Moon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.
-- Sarah Moon

#Order #Firsts #Things Happen
To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.
-- Sarah Moon

#Childhood #Creative
Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.
-- Sarah Moon

#Sometimes #Enough
How can one live without hope and longing?
-- Sarah Moon

#Longing #Without Hope
For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.
-- Sarah Moon

#Firsts
I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.
-- Sarah Moon

#Fiction #Situation
[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.
-- Sarah Moon

#Photography #Eye #Grace
The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.
-- Sarah Moon

#Thinking #Certain #Interest
Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.
-- Sarah Moon

#Photography #Giving #Stories
What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.
-- Sarah Moon

#Information #Given #Aim
I never photograph reality.
-- Sarah Moon

#Reality #Photograph

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