Orozco Quotes & Sayings

What is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different. — Gabriel Orozco

We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception. — Gabriel Orozco

Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march. — Jose Clemente Orozco

You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture. — Gabriel Orozco

I read books. I know who I am. — Daniel Orozco

In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus. — Jose Clemente Orozco

It's not just love, or desire, but something profoundly less complex, as unadorned and simple as the vehicle code. Officer laughs, cries. Tearful and giddy, she whales on her demonstrator with what she realizes is joy in her heart. — Daniel Orozco

Tony Swan, Jorge Sanchez, Calvin Franz, Frances Neagley, Stanley Lowrey, Manuel Orozco, David O'Donnell, and Karla Dixon. — Lee Child

I try always to intimate with the world ... with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private. — Gabriel Orozco

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy. — Timothy Brook

You get where you are by yourself. There's no regret in that. That's just the way it is. — Daniel Orozco

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations. — Gabriel Orozco

What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest ... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon. — Gabriel Orozco

I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves ... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living. — Gabriel Orozco

I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things. — Gabriel Orozco

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos? — Jose Clemente Orozco

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion. — Jose Clemente Orozco

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static. — Gabriel Orozco

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang? — Jose Clemente Orozco