Michael Snow Professions : Artist Born : December 10, 1929 Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Michael Snow Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films. Michael Snow portraits done might I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself. Michael Snow challenges stuff running When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater. Michael Snow aperture intensity lenses The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium. Michael Snow mediums particular quality To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph. Michael Snow depth photography art Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say? Michael Snow knows sometimes people There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance. Michael Snow film chance acceptance I don't watch a lot of reality TV. Michael Snow tvs watches reality Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act. Michael Snow speed consciousness way You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce. Michael Snow painting speed discovery Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things. Michael Snow film fighting kind When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock. Michael Snow irritated names littles If you think too much in the music you are too late. Michael Snow too-much too-late thinking I try to make each film a different film. Michael Snow film different trying It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny. Michael Snow different sometimes people The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before. Michael Snow piano monsters trying Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore. Michael Snow strong people thinking Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch). Michael Snow variation individuality sound I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people. Michael Snow mouths giving people I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking. Michael Snow strong decision attention Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors
