Joel-Peter Witkin Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Joel-Peter Witkin
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all. — Joel-Peter Witkin
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. — Joel-Peter Witkin
I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculptor or painter could recreate, not even a Michelangelo or a Da Vinci. — Joel-Peter Witkin
People who hate what I make hate me, too. They must think I am a demon or some kind of evil sorcerer. Those who understand what I do appreciate the determination, love, and courage it takes to find wonder and beauty in people who are considered by society to be damaged, unclean, dysfunctional, or wretched. — Joel-Peter Witkin
Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay. — Joel-Peter Witkin
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. — Joel-Peter Witkin
I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things ... — Joel-Peter Witkin
To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with these disjunctive, bizarre things ... I operate out of confusion, towards clarity. — Joel-Peter Witkin
I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it. — Joel-Peter Witkin
My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created. — Joel-Peter Witkin