Oliver Herring famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
-- Oliver Herring

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If somebody actually just walks up to you and says, â€˜Hey, do you want to do something out of the ordinary?â€™ there might be a little reluctance at first. But deep down, you want to do it. Itâ€™s adventure. Thatâ€™s what brings people in front of the camera. I also feel that when youâ€™re in your own environment thatâ€™s where you experiment, where you do all kinds of crazy stuff. So I thought, â€˜Okay, letâ€™s just see what happens if I allow that to unfold.â€™
-- Oliver Herring

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Perhaps the more â€˜operaticâ€™ video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece I was locked into an idea and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.
-- Oliver Herring

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Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.
-- Oliver Herring

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Part of the value of TASK is not to invest into anything permanent; to really celebrate the moment-the fluidity of creative action.
-- Oliver Herring

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Perhaps the more "operatic" video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece, I was locked into an idea, and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.
-- Oliver Herring

#Moving #Ideas #Long

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
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.
Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.
It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, â€˜We want it now, in our lifetime.â€™ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

Oliver Herring famous quotes

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