Roni Horn Quotes

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.

After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.