Top 26 Quotes About Andreas Gursky
#1. The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
Jerry Saltz
#2. We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.
Andreas Gursky
#4. With thunder and heavenly fireworks must one speak to indolent and somnolent senses. But beauty's voice speaketh gently: it appealeth only to the most awakened souls
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#7. In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.
Andreas Gursky
#8. I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba
#9. An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.
Pearl Zhu
#10. Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.
Flannery O'Connor
#11. The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
Albert Schweitzer
#12. No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.
Brian Dennehy
#15. Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#16. My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
Andreas Gursky
#17. I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
Andreas Gursky
#18. Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.
Andreas Gursky
#19. He seemed to be trying to find his way somewhere, but had forgotten where.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#20. I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
Andreas Gursky
#21. It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
Jim Henson
#22. God makes Himself felt in the heart of each person. He also respects the culture of all people ... God is open to all people. He calls everyone. He moves everyone to seek Him and to discover Him through creation.
Pope Francis
#23. Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
Camille Paglia
#24. Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
Andreas Gursky
#26. A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian
Pope Francis
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