Art Quote by Lewis Baltz

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of…

— Van Deren Coke

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek…

— Dawoud Bey

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is…

— Leonard Nimoy

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what…

— A. D. Coleman

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

— Gregory Crewdson

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is…

— Stuart Franklin

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not…

— Garry Winogrand

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy.…

— Juergen Teller