Sandy Skoglund famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
-- Sandy Skoglund

#Elements #Obsession #Process
My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.
-- Sandy Skoglund

#Reality #Emotional #Abnormal
The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.
-- Sandy Skoglund

#Art #Ideas #Trying
I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.
-- Sandy Skoglund

#Photography #Art #Tragedy
I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and the behavioral aspects of getting the work done, are just as important as the installation and the photograph. So, for me, the relationship between the two is more about hybridism and the search for an ideal form that I'm never going to arrive at. The installation and the photograph are mere approximations of this ideal.
-- Sandy Skoglund

#Mean #Thinking #Two
If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.
-- Sandy Skoglund

#Emotional #Thinking #Assistants
I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.
-- Sandy Skoglund

#Photography #Loss #Emotional

I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...
The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.
The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Sandy Skoglund famous quotes

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