Complexes Quote by Ezra Pound

If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one…

— Thomas Struth

“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism. It is…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

— Brooks Atkinson

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the…

— Bill Henson

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may…

— Edward Weston

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of…

— Alfred Stieglitz

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would,…

— Henri Matisse

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

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

— William Shirley

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

— Claire Messud

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life…

— Charles Ives