Alive Quote by Arnulf Rainer

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

— Iris Murdoch

Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can't see it. It can build up a dense…

— Vija Celmins

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance,…

— Joshua Reynolds

“The whole place was a lost black-and-white photograph.”

— D.M. Pulley

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that…

— Terri Clark

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to…

— Lisette Model

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

— Michael Heizer

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

— Sri Aurobindo

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but…

— D. H. Lawrence

If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you…

— Eva Fuka

A picture can hide as much as it reveals.

— Alexandra Petri

I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody…

— Larry Clark