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Jeff Wall

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Quotes by Jeff Wall

If you are capable of making good pictures it’s immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.
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If you are capable of making good pictures it’s immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.
Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form Without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death. The truth is the light and light is the truth.
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Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form Without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death. The truth is the light and light is the truth.
I guess you could say I’m like a film director but my movies have only one frame.
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I guess you could say I’m like a film director but my movies have only one frame.
One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.
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One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.
If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.
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If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.
IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,
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IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,
Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.
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Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.
A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.
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A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.
Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form Without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death. The truth is the light and light is the truth.
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Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form Without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death. The truth is the light and light is the truth.
The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.
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The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.
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