Sarah Charlesworth famous quotes

To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described, the reality of a world once removed. I prefer, on the other hand, to look at the photographs as something real and of my world, a strange and powerful thing... part of a language, a system of communication, an economy of signs.
-- Sarah Charlesworth

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I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it inform, and then rearranging it.
-- Sarah Charlesworth

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I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.
-- Sarah Charlesworth

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Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is letting whatever power, whatever affect they have, work on its own.
-- Sarah Charlesworth

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I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.
-- Sarah Charlesworth

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The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.