Roni Horn Quotes

#1. The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#2. 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.

Roni Horn

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

Roni Horn

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

Roni Horn

#5. Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila's capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides.

Elena Ferrante

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

Roni Horn

#7. The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

Hugh Hefner

#8. Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.

Thucydides

#9. You can live here all your life, and still be considered an outsider.

E.D. Rea

#10. 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.

Roni Horn

#11. You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

Henry Ford

#12. 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.

Roni Horn

#13. Dr. Stanpole's car was at the top of it, headlights on and motor running, empty. I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit.

John Knowles

#14. Heart cannot think what outrage and what cries, with black smoke and flashing fire, the beast threw forth, turning the whole world to darkness.

Margaret Hodges