Care Quote by John Ruskin

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to…

— Ernst Haas

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

— Georges Braque

“In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known, they are…

— Anthony Powell

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than…

— Ernst Haas

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a…

— Ansel Adams

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

— Gerald Brommer

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after…

— Anton Chekhov

“I do my best to simplify and refine, to be logical and harmonious. But I also try to keep an open mind, to listen…

— Eric Carle

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

— Gerhard Richter

In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we…

— Robert Genn

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share…

— Jean Helion

The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

— Leo Tolstoy