Art Quote by Luigi Ghirri Download Open image “The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.” — Luigi Ghirri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artistic Formal Gestures Photograph Photography
Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced… — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people. — James Wilson Copy Share Image
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality. — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone. — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
The meaning that i am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image