Roni Horn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.
-- Roni Horn

#Matter #Subject Matter #Subjects
As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.
-- Roni Horn

#Photography #Frozen #Moments
Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because that’s almost a human need, that water be a positive force.
-- Roni Horn

#Water #Darkness #Humanity
You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.
-- Roni Horn

#Home #Use #World
I understand all the work to be of a nonabstract nature regardless of the style, form, or explicit subject matter because all the work... is concerned with evoking experiences that are in themselves - and their relationship to you, the viewer - the ultimate subject and content of the work. I want to equate the experience of the work with its meaning.
-- Roni Horn

#Style #Want #Matter
The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female.
-- Roni Horn

#Order #White #Differences
A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.
-- Roni Horn

#Analogue #Short Time
After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.
-- Roni Horn

#Iceland #Long #Firsts

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Roni Horn famous quotes

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