Art Quote by Jerry Saltz

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable…

— Jerry Saltz

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

— Samuel Prout

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

— Jason Momoa

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern artist. If…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented…

— Joe Average

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of…

— Van Deren Coke

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that…

— Anonymous

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

— St. Lucia

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

— Berenice Abbott

Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it…

— Richard Avedon