Art Quote by Jacob Collins Download Open image “The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.” — Jacob Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Photography Reliance
The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing. — Edward Ruscha 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
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not… — Van Deren Coke 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
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 has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention,… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers -… — Peter Beard Copy Share Image
Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it. — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after… — Jacob Collins 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
