Art Quote by Edward Ruscha Download Open image “The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.” — Edward Ruscha ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Facts Fine Fine artists Made Made it Painter Photography Used
Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their… — Jessie Tarbox Beals Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do. — Brassai Copy Share Image
I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me,… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share
I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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