While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end.… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
All my work at Armani is based primarily on my personal vision of style, and while I differentiate between the look and… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present… — Hollis Alpert Copy Share Image
The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision. — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become… — Michael Bell Copy Share Image
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image