Douglas Crimp famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.
-- Douglas Crimp

#Desire #Absence #Representation
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.
-- Douglas Crimp

#Reality #Order #Cinema
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined.
-- Douglas Crimp

#Art #Technology #Creating
Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art.
-- Douglas Crimp

#Photography #Art #Definitions
[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do.
-- Douglas Crimp

#Art #Real #Self

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...
I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.

Douglas Crimp famous quotes

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