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Visual art Quotes

"The portrait is a remarkable example of modern art. It certainly combines force and candour."

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

"I don’t think film is like other art forms in that it’s a thing; it’s not a finished object, it’s an experience"

"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds"

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "

"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."

"Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."

"In my view, you cannot claim to have really seen something until you have photographed it"

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."