12 Quotes by Joel-Peter Witkin

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn’t stop on the sixth day.

I’ve come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect’s nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.

I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things...