Arranged Quote by Ben Shahn

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

— Richard Phillips

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was…

— Frans Lanting

I had my first exhibition in September, 2012. This was when I first introduced the public to my style of the incorporation of cloth…

— St. Lucia

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

— Saul Leiter

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to…

— Ben Shahn

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I…

— Claes Oldenburg

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful…

— Mathew Brady

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world…

— Matthew Barney

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third,…

— Douglass North

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

— Ma Jian

I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.

— Brooklyn Beckham