Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he took, he was already comparing nature to the first photograph he had taken.
Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs. - Vik Muniz
Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.
- Vik Muniz
A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it. - Vik Muniz
A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.
The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody. - Vik Muniz
The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemol… - Vik Muniz
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemol…
The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything. - Vik Muniz
The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.
Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come u… - Vik Muniz
Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come u…
It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go… - Vik Muniz
It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go…
When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back an… - Vik Muniz
When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back an…
I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I… - Vik Muniz
I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I…
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