Wynn Bullock Quotes

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

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Repetition doesn't really exist

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Photography threatens fantasy.

All progression is in the relative world.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.