Focused Quote by Barbara Kruger

Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to…

— Aaron Siskind

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

— Nigel Dennis

I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to…

— David Salle

“In one of its aspects, art is a technique for focusing attention, for teaching skills of attention. The history of the arts is tantamount…

— Susan Sontag

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form…

— Nancy Newhall

I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this…

— Paul Outerbridge

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

— Sol LeWitt