Fourteen Quote by Judy Dater

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I…

— Kim Weston

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

— Ma Jian

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted…

— Claes Oldenburg

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 newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

— Cleo Moore

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows.…

— Duane Michals

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they…

— Lexa Doig

In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always…

— Arnulf Rainer

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

— Terry Richardson

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.

— Grayson Perry

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

— Leonard Nimoy

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was…

— Anna Nicole Smith