Robert Heinecken Quotes

#1. Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.

Thomas Merton

#2. Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Robert Heinecken

#3. Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.

Robert Heinecken

#4. I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.

Robert Heinecken

#5. God does not read.

Emil M. Cioran

#6. Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

Wallace Stegner

#7. Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

Madame De Stael

#8. No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

Vince Flynn

#9. The photograph ... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

Robert Heinecken

#10. When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.

Meher Baba

#11. Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind.

John Patrick Hickey

#12. I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.

Rachel Trachtenburg

#13. Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

Robert Heinecken

#15. That's it. New rule: no more flirting during the zombie apocalypse

Alison Kemper

#16. Discovery of India' by Jawaharlal Nehru.

Thota Ramesh

#17. If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.

Paulo Coelho

#18. Frank Loesser was a beautiful soul. I didn't know how great he was when I met him, but I just adored him. He was a sweet man.

Donna McKechnie

#19. If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

John Lancaster Spalding

#20. Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.

Michael O'Brien

#21. I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.

Robert Heinecken

#22. An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla.

Robert Heinecken