Art Quote by Jock Sturges Download Open image “It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.” — Jock Sturges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Fine Fine arts Hard Photographer Photography
Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form. — Pieter Hugo Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose.… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself. — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations. — Jock Sturges 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“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
