Chevrier Quotes

#1. Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Louis Untermeyer

#2. Well, you could have knocked me sideways with a feather.

Sally Gardner

#3. Photography has not invented anything.

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#4. It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#5. We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Michael Novak

#6. People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

Mickey Hart

#7. I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#8. To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#9. Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings ...

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#10. His eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks.

Eleanor Cameron