Jeff Wall Quotes

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

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  Directors, Film, Film Directors

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

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  Beautiful, Art, Spontaneity

  Jeff Wall, Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria) (2003). “Jeff Wall: photographs”, Walther Konig

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

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  Before And After, Invisible

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• 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 is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.

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  Technology, Hands, Digital

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• If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

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  Excuse You, Giving, Might

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• IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

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  Photography, Pitfalls, Definitions

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• I begin by not photographing.

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  "Jeff Wall works the crowds and critics" by Christine Finn, www.wired.com. December 11, 2007.

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

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  Decision, Doe, Judgment

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• Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.

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  Agency, Traffic, Heavy

  "Jeff Wall and Lucas Blalock: A Conversation on Pictures". Interview with Lucas Blalock, aperture.org.

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