Uta Barth Quotes

#1. Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.

Uta Barth

#2. Scale creates millionaires. Magnitude creates millionaires. Scale and magnitude creates billionaires.

M.J. DeMarco

#3. Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

Mink Stole

#4. My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.

Uta Barth

#5. The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

James Buchanan

#6. I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.

Uta Barth

#7. Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze.

James Cook

#8. Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.

Uta Barth

#9. I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.

Uta Barth

#10. Our mind is a crazy nightclub of cacophonous sound filled with strange images and one-night stands: our mind tells us lonely, loveless tales that leave us frightened but really have no lasting power

Lauren Roedy Vaughn

#11. To know your future you must know your past

George Santayana