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I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional…
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My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and…
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I am wedded to who I am.
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The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've…
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I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
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I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.
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In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,…
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The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
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Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing…
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I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my…
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I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It…
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Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.
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The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is…
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Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
— Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of…
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Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start…
— Imogen Cunningham
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In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or…
— Roger Ebert
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When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,…
— Burton Silverman
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Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,…
— Patti Smith
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I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
— Joel Sternfeld
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