Roni Horn Quotes

#1. Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because that's almost a human need, that water be a positive force.

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#2. Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

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#3. A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.

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#4. As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

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#5. After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me ... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.

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#6. You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.

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