By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.
Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
The idea of printing out something that's as scary as a tumor into its concrete form was something that spoke to me - there is something very liberating about that idea.
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
