Courses Quote by Henri Matisse

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in…

— Jerry Uelsmann

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

— Albert Camus

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

— Edward Weston

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature…

— Gavin Turk

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

— Rene Magritte

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or…

— Richard Diebenkorn

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

— Rene Crevel

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek.…

— Marc Chagall

I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should…

— Georges Braque

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein