Home / Quotes / Quote by Kenneth Goldsmith

Quote by Kenneth Goldsmith

“All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.”

Quote by Kenneth Goldsmith

Author

Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith, born in 1961, is a renowned poet known for his profound reflections on language and culture. His works often employ techniques of textual collage and repetition to explore themes such as memory, history, and identity. more

You May Also Like

“Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.”

Stories Language Materials Communication Shapes Invisible Mediums Contracts Transparent Mold Telling Stories

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing, affirming blast of "humanity" in all forms. It totally cracked my mind-nut open and rainbows shot out. I loved humanity and being alive, rather than wanting to bury my head in the snow.”

Mind Long War Form Humanity Alive Long Time Shots Snow Nuts Far Away Rainbow Blast Cracked Affirming Norway

Author:Phil Elvrum

“My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.”

“Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.”

Ifs Art Ideas Art Is Conceptual Art

Author:Sol LeWitt

“Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.”

Writing Moments Simple Profound Noses Awe Transcendent Awe Inspiring Aha Moment

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.”

Thinking Trying Matter Hard Names Successful Environment Expression Reframing New Environment Successful Work

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.”

Thinking Deeper Better Off Documentation

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.”

Thinking Trying Kind Behavior Extensions Embarrassing Old Fashioned Being Old

Author:Phil Elvrum

“If you don't want something to exist - and there are many reasons to want to keep things private - keep it off the web. But if you put it in digital form, expect it to be bootlegged, remixed, manipulated, and endlessly commented upon.”

Ifs Want Reason Form Digital Want Something

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“I don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins.”

Thinking World Feels Relative Margins

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith