Decided Quote by Georges Braque

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

— Emmet Gowin

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him.…

— Robert Adams

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix

The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves…

— William Boyd

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

— Simone Weil

As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

— William Dobell

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

— Talib Kweli

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

— Kenneth Koch