Wynn Bullock Quotes

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

This is not a just image, this is just an image.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive... Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

The image is an image.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.