Appears Spontaneously Quotes by Jeff Wall

I begin by not photographing.

— Jeff Wall

Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.

— Jeff Wall

A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.

— Jeff Wall

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

— Jeff Wall

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

— Jeff Wall

Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves,…

— Jeff Wall

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,

— 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.

— Jeff Wall

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…

— Jeff Wall