10+ Robert Heinecken Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Robert Heinecken quotes and sayings.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. — Robert Heinecken

An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla. — Robert Heinecken

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations. — Robert Heinecken

I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was completely open to cut them up, or do anything like that. I think if I had been in touch with people earlier, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that. It would have been too bizarre. — Robert Heinecken

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it. — Robert Heinecken

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something. — Robert Heinecken

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image. — Robert Heinecken

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. — Robert Heinecken

I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible. — Robert Heinecken

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph. — Robert Heinecken