Jeff Wall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,
-- Jeff Wall

#Photography #Pitfalls #Definitions
The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.
-- Jeff Wall

#Beautiful #Art #Spontaneity
I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.
-- Jeff Wall

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A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.
-- Jeff Wall

#Before And After #Invisible
One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.
-- Jeff Wall

#Technology #Hands #Digital
If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.
-- Jeff Wall

#Excuse You #Giving #Might
I begin by not photographing.
-- Jeff Wall
Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.
-- Jeff Wall

#Decision #Doe #Judgment
Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.
-- Jeff Wall

#Agency #Traffic #Heavy

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.
SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.
Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it

Jeff Wall famous quotes

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