Top 7 Quotes by Joseph Cornell

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

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

Joseph Cornell

Art, Children, Eye

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

Joseph Cornell

Boxes

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

Joseph Cornell

Significance, Series, Ifs

Joseph Cornell (1993). “Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files”, Thames & Hudson

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.

Joseph Cornell

Moon, Sea, White

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