Frank Gohlke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures.
-- Frank Gohlke

#Tuning #Enough #Aspect
When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.
-- Frank Gohlke

#Important #Attention #Photographer
Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.
-- Frank Gohlke

#Photography #Reality #Unlocking
I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world, then you enter the picture and you're in a different world (it's not the same as the one you live in, but recognizable as one you might live in). And then you're returned to your world with an enlarged sense of its possibilities.
-- Frank Gohlke

#Different #World #Might
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's in the photograph - a kind of rhetorical device or rhetorical strategy. It's always felt very natural to me, because I want a person to end up thinking about the world, and to think about it in a way that is transformed by the experience of art.
-- Frank Gohlke

#Art #Thinking #Rhetorical Strategies

Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?
It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the â€˜core aspect of the designâ€™
Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.
But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

Frank Gohlke famous quotes

You may also like: