Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Judith Schaechter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an artist Judith Schaechter.
Last updated on October 6, 2024.
Judith Schaechter

Judith Schaechter is a Philadelphia-based artist known for her work in the medium of stained glass. Her pieces often use symbolism from stained glass and Gothic traditions, but the distorted faces and figures in her work recall a 20th century German Expressionist painting style and her subject matter is secular. Shaechter's work often involves images that might be considered disturbing such as death, disease, or violence. Early Schaechter pieces, for example, such as King of Maggots and Vide Futentes make use of memento mori, symbols of death found in church architecture during medieval times.

Artist | Born: 1961
It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions. — © Judith Schaechter
It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.
Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.
Is an 'idea' an advance visualization of a piece? Part of a piece? If anything - if it hasn't already evaporated - it's one of the very first things sacrificed during the actual process of making something.
Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.
The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.
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