Joseph Cornell Quotes

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  • Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

  • Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

    Joseph Cornell (1993). “Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files”, Thames & Hudson
  • Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

    Joy   Sublime   Venture  
  • Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

  • Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

    Art   Children   Eye  
  • My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

    Boxes  
  • Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.

    Moon   Sea   White  
    Joseph Cornell, Pasadena Art Museum (1967*). “An exhibition of works”
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