Art Quote by David Travis

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as…

— Bill Jay

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is…

— Edward Weston

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to…

— Robert Motherwell

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

— Paula Rego

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know,…

— Emmet Gowin

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.…

— Carl Mydans

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

— Chris Jordan