Art Quote by Lewis Baltz Download Open image “The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.” — Lewis Baltz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Books Documents Funny Ideals Inspirational Love
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document. — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography. — Jean-Marc Bustamante Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like… — Mario Giacomelli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.) — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
“I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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