Aaron Siskind Quotes

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

Aaron Siskind

Tags: art

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

Aaron Siskind

Tags: want, know, you

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Aaron Siskind (December 4, 1903 – February 8, 1991) was an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if not a part of, the abstract expressionist movement, and was close friends with painters Franz Kline (whose own breakthrough show at the Charles Egan Gallery occurred in the same period as Siskind's one-man shows at the same gallery), Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning.