Acid Quote by John Ruskin

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind…

— Martin Puryear

Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for…

— Alexey Brodovitch

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

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as…

— Henri Matisse

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions,…

— David Hume

If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing…

— Richard Serra

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which…

— E. M. Forster

You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectlyfutile…

— Anna Brackett

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

— Pauline Kael

Art is the signature of man.

— Anonymous

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would,…

— Henri Matisse

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

— Jeffrey Archer