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- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
- He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I… — Irving Stone
- It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or… — Bill Brandt
- It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do… — Alexey Brodovitch
- There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things… — Yaacov Agam
- A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. — Edward Dahlberg
- The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams
- Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better.… — Robert Adams
- The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees… — Caspar David Friedrich
- A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to… — Leonardo da Vinci
- Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by… — Fulton J. Sheen
- What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he… — Ernst Gombrich