Found Objects Quotes

• Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

  Charles Simic

  Art, Sculpture, Chance

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• Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.

  Max Ernst

  Artist, Light, Matter

  Max Ernst, Ian Turpin, Julian Stallabrass (1993). “Ernst”, Phaidon Press

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• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  Garth Stein

  Documentaries, Stories, Elements

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• Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Memories, Machines

  "Marcel Duchamp’s Influence". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Sexy, Sex Relationships

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

  Nate Berkus

  Nice, Mean, Years

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• Las considero pinturas encontradas porque no las recorto, no las manipulo ni nada por el estilo. Para mí son como objetos encontrados.

  Dennis Hopper

  Thinking, Painting, Photograph

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• When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.

  Gavin Turk

  Artist, College, Names

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.

  Ansel Adams

  Doubt, World, Lasts

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• En el estudio utilizamos una gama bastante amplia de materiales para las esculturas: silicona, fibra de vidrio, pelo humano y animal, plástico ABS, acrílico dental, escayolas tradicionales y de alta tecnología, acero inoxidable, pintura para automóviles, madera contrachapada, metal Britannia, objetos encontrados y animales de taxidermia.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Animal, Hair, Taxidermy

  Entrevista del informe The Condition, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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