Artist Quote by Francis Bacon

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

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure…

— Thomas Demand

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

— Bert Stern

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

— Tim Hetherington

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

A lot of the images in my work are a kind of visual diary of places I've been, what I've seen, heard, smelt.

— Francesca Da Rimini

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good…

— John Gutmann

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

— Temple Grandin

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

— Alexa Chung

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures…

— Temple Grandin

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

— Garry Winogrand