Determined Quote by David Salle

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

— Pablo Picasso

I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.

— Lynne Ramsay

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek…

— Dawoud Bey

With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and…

— John Dykstra

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

— Barbara Kruger

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

— Annie Leibovitz

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing,…

— David Hockney

Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a crayon. It…

— Malick Sidibe

I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of…

— Grant Mudford

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a…

— Michael Craig-Martin

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to…

— Marina Abramovic