20th century Quote by Jeff Vespa

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up…

— Paul Smith

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

— Patti Smith

I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended, to me,…

— Sam Abell

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist -…

— Haris Pasovic

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up…

— John Dyer

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

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could…

— James A. Michener

Anselm Kiefer made a book for me. He was taking pictures of me and my friends when we weren't posing, just all walking along.…

— Michele Lamy

The artist by his work is known.

— Francoise-Marguerite de Sevigne

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way

— David Hockney