Leon Golub Quotes
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I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.
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The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated - to try to get some of this is important... The photofix inflects the almost literal shaping of a figure, changes of movement or potential movement, and a sense of occurrence or event.
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People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to know what Kissinger looks like? Well, the photograph tells us one version; I'm trying to tell it also, but differently.
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Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.
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Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.
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Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.
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I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.
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