Rachel Whiteread famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't want to make plop art â€” sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.
-- Rachel Whiteread

#Art #World #Want
When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.
-- Rachel Whiteread

#Grief #Kids #People
I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.
-- Rachel Whiteread

#Thinking #Artist #Differences

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

Rachel Whiteread famous quotes

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