Recording Reality Quotes

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right, you're exposing yourself, and you're expressing your emotions, and those are the key attributes to a big record that really connect with people.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

I know I have this image but in reality, if you take all my records, I had to use five or six [tracks].

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.