Elusive Quote by Daido Moriyama

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

— Thomas Struth

Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.

— Jan Theuninck

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

— Bede Griffiths

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there,…

— Chuck Close

“I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as optical effects…

— Thomas Hardy

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

— Herb Ritts

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling…

— Ernest Hemingway

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

— Pablo Picasso

One must confront vague ideas with clear images,

— Jean-Luc Godard

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I…

— Luis Gonzalez

In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a…

— Wynn Bullock

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved…

— Alberto Giacometti