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“Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.”

Ifs Thinking Years Whole Body Eye Taken Pieces Feet Ears Photograph Your Body Familiar Aliens Who We Are Isolated Think Of You Elbows

Author:Paul Auster

“For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Film Gone Pieces Shots Lays Fingers Finals Photograph Load

Author:Catherine Yass

“Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.”

Pieces Painting Photography Evidence Photograph Biographies Ongoing

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.”

Soul Pieces Photography Silent Photograph Deceiving Freezing

Book:Of Love and Shadows: A Novel

Source: Of Love and Shadows: A Novel

“I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.”

Pieces Information Pages Photograph Newspapers Printed Irresistible Hooked Stumbling Serendipity

Author:Jill Abramson

“I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.”

Art Wanted My Own Pieces Photograph Video Jeopardize

Author:Orlan

“To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time. When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Art I Can Light Speak Space Pieces Photography Photograph Capture Squares Art Of Writing Rectangles

Author:Gerardo Suter

“After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.”

Want Writing Mind Walks Pieces Photograph Architecture

Author:Patti Smith

“I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.”

People Giving Looks Two Ideas Ends Three Pieces Crazy Materials Picks Photographer Photograph Instruction Closest Mislead Documentation

Author:Marina Abramovic

“When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.”

People Ifs World Wells Art Realizing Levels Audience Pieces Streets Dangerous Internet Photograph Rebel Location Exposure Profile Art World High Profile Street Art Cache

Author:Shepard Fairey

“It's quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You'd never know they'd been here.”

Knows Done House Pieces Photograph Furniture

Author:Doris Day

“A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.”

Pieces Objects Materials Paper Photograph

Book:Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

Source: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

“In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.”

“One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.”

Knows Pieces Photography Remains Photograph Drawing Gaps Torn Fragments Profile

Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard

“When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.”

Thinking Firsts Art Ideas Used Pieces Materials Photography Commitment Photographer Photograph Mediums Eras Just One Recalls

Author:William Wegman

“My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces were ways to, literally, throw myself into my environment. They were photographs not of an activity, but through an activity; the activity (once I planted a camera in the instrument of that activity - once I, simply, held a camera in my hands) could produce a picture.”

Way Firsts Art Real Hands Space Environment Pieces Produce Activity Pages Cameras Instruments Photograph

Author:Vito Acconci

“You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)”

Art Pieces Land Strange Photograph Sculptors Exhibitions

Author:Dennis Oppenheim

“You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.”

Way Two Different Space Steps Pieces Objects Negative Photograph Different Ways Aesthetic Space Between Negative Space

Author:Taryn Simon

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