Busy Quote by Burton Silverman

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work!…

— Roy Lichtenstein

“Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality, and the…

— Isabel Allende

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic…

— Vincent Van Gogh

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became…

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in…

— Pablo Picasso

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography…

— Marcel Duchamp

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some…

— Aaron Scharf

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their…

— Jessie Tarbox Beals

“I think museums are dead boring. I don't like most of the pictures on their walls. With modern pieces you never know if it's…

— Jutta Profijt

“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to…

— Geoff Dyer

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of…

— Joel Sternfeld