Quotes About Art

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

I wish I were a really good photographer.

My father was a keen photographer; he had his own darkroom.

The best photographers know how to light any color skin.

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.

There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with.

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.