Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Jeff Wall

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian artist Jeff Wall.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay, and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop.

Canadian - Artist | Born: September 29, 1946

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The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

Jeff Wall

A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.

Jeff Wall

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

Jeff Wall

Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.

Jeff Wall

Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.

Jeff Wall

I begin by not photographing.

Jeff Wall

One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.

Jeff Wall

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

Jeff Wall

If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

Jeff Wall