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I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things I had read, and I wanted to do the same to others. I don't think it ever was the notion of an autobiography I skipped that phase totally, I think.
Vito Acconci
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Architecture is not about space but about time.
Vito Acconci
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I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.
Vito Acconci
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The great thing about the Guggenheim is that you can see art in the fastest way if you want to. Which isn't bad. It's almost like Frank Lloyd Wright didn't know something called the Internet was going to exist, so he made it so you can go down as fast as possible.
Vito Acconci
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I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.
Vito Acconci
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There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
Thomas Jefferson
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In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work
Sol LeWitt
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
John Ruskin
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The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
Andrei Voznesensky
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You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.
Isamu Noguchi
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I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.
John Baldessari
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Unless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things.
Andreas Feininger
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The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.
Andreas Feininger
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With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big.
Andreas Feininger
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Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.
Andreas Feininger
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Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
Andreas Feininger
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"Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, ""Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs."" That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest."
Andreas Feininger
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Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.
Andreas Feininger
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As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
Andreas Feininger
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Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.
Andreas Feininger
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The first impression of a new subject is not necessary the best. Seen from a different angle or under different condition it might look even better. Always study a three - dimensional subject with one eye closed.
Andreas Feininger
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A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.
Andreas Feininger
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The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.
Andreas Feininger
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What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.
Andreas Feininger
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