Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

“When I flick through a family album, I see that people don’t die, they just become photographs”

— S.E. SEVER

When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles.…

— Teju Cole

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

— Paul Emsley

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

— Constantin Brancusi

It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a parody, or…

— Christopher Bollen

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

— Balthus

I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing.…

— Damian Loeb

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt…

— Adam Gopnik

“The art is never about what you write about. The art is about how you write about what you write about.”

— Chris Abani

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and…

— Oscar Wilde

I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But,…

— David Thewlis

“You can't break my heart and call the lines you write on art.”

— Laura Chouette

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me…

— Lester Bangs

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on…

— Garry Winogrand

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr