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Michael Snow, a Canadian artist born on December 10, 1929, is renowned for his innovative works in film, painting, and sculpture. His art often explores concepts of time and space, as well as the interaction between the audience and the artwork.

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Famous Michael Snow Quotes

“To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.”

Has Beens Art Subjects Photography Transformation Depth Photograph Available Spectators

Author:Michael Snow

“When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.”

Greater Range Intensity Lenses Aperture

Book:Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967

Source: Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967

“Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).”

Certain Sound Aspect Jazz Western Individuality Radical Revolutionary Collectives Composition Variation Improvisation Timbre Western Music

Book:The Collected Writings of Michael Snow

Source: The Collected Writings of Michael Snow

“When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.”

Littles Names Bits Little Bit Shock Irritated Popping

Author:Michael Snow

“I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.”

People Giving Littles Bits Little Bit Mouths Foul

Author:Michael Snow

“Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.”

People Thinking Way Should Has Beens Wanted Strong Decision Target Alliances Making Decisions

Author:Michael Snow

“I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.”

Running Stuff Challenges Marathon

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“I don't watch a lot of reality TV.”

Reality Watches Tvs Reality Tv

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“I try to make each film a different film.”

Trying Different Film

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“Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.”

Kind Film Fighting All Kinds Riot

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“I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.”

People Knows Used Happenings Tough Used To Be

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“People's vocabulary has expanded.”

People Vocabulary

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“I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.”

Knows Able Used Strong Decision Attention Influence Television Theater Used To Be Attention Span

Author:Michael Snow

“I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.”

Want Real Physical Things

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“The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.”

Quality Particular Mediums

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“Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.”

Done Might Happens Film Faces Portraits

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“There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.”

Film Chance Acceptance Improvisation

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“The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.”

Trying Has Beens Done Bits Weight Instruments Paint Western Monsters Piano Fixed Western Music

Author:Michael Snow

“We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.”

Able Culture Records Effects Negative Aspect West Preserves Intrusion

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“The idea that recording itself is an instrument.”

Ideas Instruments

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“Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.”

Way Consciousness Speed

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“If you think too much in the music you are too late.”

Ifs Thinking Too Much Late Too Late

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“You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.”

Happened Produce Painting Discovery Speed Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism

Author:Michael Snow

“I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.”

Way Trying Individual Special Mediums

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“It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.”

People Different Sometimes Mediums Knowledgeable

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“Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?”

People Knows Sometimes

Author:Michael Snow

About the Author

Born: December 10, 1929
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 26

Books & Sources

The Collected Writings of Michael SnowRelated source material

Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967Related source material

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