Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Cornell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Joseph Cornell.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell was an American visual artist and film-maker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. He was largely self-taught in his artistic efforts, and improvised his own original style incorporating cast-off and discarded artifacts. He lived most of his life in relative physical isolation, caring for his mother and his disabled brother at home, but remained aware of and in contact with other contemporary artists.

Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.
My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed. — © Joseph Cornell
My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.
Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.
Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.
Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
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