Michael Snow Quotes

• 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

  Lenses, Aperture, Intensity

  Dennis Reid, Michael Snow, Philip Monk, Louise Dompierre, Art Gallery of Ontario (1994). “Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967”, Knopf Canada

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• There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

  Michael Snow

  Acceptance, Chance, Film

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• 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

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• The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

  Michael Snow

  Quality, Mediums, Particular

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• Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

  Michael Snow

  Way, Consciousness, Speed

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• If you think too much in the music you are too late.

  Michael Snow

  Thinking, Too Late, Too Much

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• I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

  Michael Snow

  Running, Challenges, Stuff

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• Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

  Michael Snow

  People, Sometimes, Knows

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• 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

  Photography, Art, Depth

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• Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

  Michael Snow

  Fighting, Kind, Film

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• I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

  Michael Snow

  People, Giving, Mouths

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• I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

  Michael Snow

  Real, Want, Physical Things

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• I try to make each film a different film.

  Michael Snow

  Trying, Different, Film

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• 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, Trying, Monsters

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• I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

  Michael Snow

  People, Tough, Used

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• 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

  Individuality, Sound, Variation

  Michael Snow, Louise Dompierre (2010). “The Collected Writings of Michael Snow”, p.189, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• 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, Thinking, People

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• The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

  Michael Snow

  Ideas, Instruments

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• I don't watch a lot of reality TV.

  Michael Snow

  Reality, Watches, Tvs

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• 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

  Discovery, Painting, Speed

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• We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.

  Michael Snow

  Negative, Culture, Records

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• People's vocabulary has expanded.

  Michael Snow

  Vocabulary, People

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• 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

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• When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

  Michael Snow

  Names, Littles, Irritated

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• It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

  Michael Snow

  People, Different, Sometimes

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