Quotes About Art

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

I love photography myself.

I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography.

I was interested in photography from my college days and wanted to become a cinematographer.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

There are two things that I really like to do. One is I like to watch horror films a lot. The other hobby is photography.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

I've got a great collection of photography.

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.

I did painting before I did photography.