Challenges Quote by Larry Sultan

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct,…

— Jessica Stockholder

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

— Robert Rauschenberg

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and…

— Roger Ballen

The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

— David Hockney

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

— William Wordsworth

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a…

— Mark Rothko

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures…

— Curt Schilling

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

— Robert Rauschenberg

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

— Joshua Reynolds

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

— Ansel Adams

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

— Marty Stuart

I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it…

— Idris Khan