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“My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.”

Quote by Vik Muniz

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Vik Muniz, born on December 20, 1961, is a Brazilian artist known for his unique approach to using non-traditional materials in his work, such as garbage, sugar, and sand. His art often focuses on social and environmental issues, conveying profound social messages through the medium of art. more

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“Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.”

Tired Photograph Drawing

Author:Vik Muniz

“Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.”

Thinking Way Century Painting Photography Ghost Mediums Digital Nineteenth Century

Author:Vik Muniz

“If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Form Please Let Me

Book:Vik Muniz: seeing is believing

Source: Vik Muniz: seeing is believing

“Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.”

Doe Art Matter Artist Force Bits Dark Half Objects Gains Miracle Come Up Empowering Viewers

Author:Vik Muniz

“I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I think it's good when you're confused about what you are; it means you haven't defined yourself as an artist yet.”

Thinking Mean Artist Hate Havens Photography I Hate Photographer Painter Defined Confused Draftsman

Author:Vik Muniz

“Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he took, he was already comparing nature to the first photograph he had taken.”

Firsts Views Taken Pure Photograph Saint Compare Rooftops

Author:Vik Muniz

“Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally... All great photographs today are snapshots.”

Today Moving Subjects Photograph Snapshots

Author:Martin Munkacsi

“My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.”

Trying Years Wells Difficult Youth Source Activity Tricks Bitter Occupation Modest Berries Trying Everything

Author:Martin Munkacsi

“To see in a thousandth of a second what indifferent people come close to without noticing - that is the principle of photographic reportage. And in the thousandth of a second that follows, to take the photo of what one has seen - that is the practical side of reportage.”

People Sides Principles Practicals Indifferent Noticing

Author:Martin Munkacsi

“We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.”

War Eye Adversaries

Book:The violent peace

Source: The violent peace