Art Quote by Christophe Agou

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

— Annie Leibovitz

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

— Lisa Joy

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

— Lauren Greenfield

If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

— Ansel Adams

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

— J. M. W. Turner

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way…

— Thomas Kinkade

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing…

— Martin Parr

I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with…

— Leonard Nimoy

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement.…

— Steve Prefontaine

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.

— Madonna Ciccone