Joseph Cornell Quotes

• Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

  Joseph Cornell

  Art, Children, Eye

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• My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

  Joseph Cornell

  Boxes

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• Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

  Joseph Cornell

  Significance, Series, Ifs

  Joseph Cornell (1993). “Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files”, Thames & Hudson

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• Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys.
  To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

  Joseph Cornell

  Joy, Sublime, Venture

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• Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.

  Joseph Cornell

  Moon, Sea, White

  Joseph Cornell, Pasadena Art Museum (1967*). “An exhibition of works”

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• Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

  Joseph Cornell

  Childhood, Shadow, Elements

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• Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

  Joseph Cornell

  Children, Remember, Direct

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