"The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that."

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Source : Jeff Wall, Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria) (2003). “Jeff Wall: photographs”, Walther Konig

Jeff Wall

#Beautiful Quotes #Art Quotes #Spontaneity Quotes

“Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?”
“Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.”
“Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.”
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.387, Penguin
“That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.”
“Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.
“When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.”
“Iâ€™m increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning continue. If I could help protect one of those from destruction, maybe that would be enough. Maybe it would be more than most people do.”

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