Gabriel Orozco famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.
-- Gabriel Orozco

#Art #Reality #Museums
I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.
-- Gabriel Orozco

#Believe #Gestures #Action
We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.
-- Gabriel Orozco

#Reality #Opposites #Stability
I try always to intimate with the worldâ€¦ with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.
-- Gabriel Orozco

#Fearless #Trying #World
My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.
-- Gabriel Orozco

#Cameras #Movement #Photograph
What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.
-- Gabriel Orozco

#Rivers #Perception #Flow
Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.
-- Gabriel Orozco

#Photography #Space #Trying
You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture.
-- Gabriel Orozco

#Important #Cameras #World
I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.
-- Gabriel Orozco

#Artist #Everyday #Economics

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.
We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.
Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.
I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

Gabriel Orozco famous quotes

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