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I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather…

— Lucian Freud

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

To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the artist's hand…

— Dario Robleto

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

— Richard Avedon

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

— Laurie Anderson

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

— Andres Serrano

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

— John Baldessari

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints…

— Raymond Pettibon

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're…

— Annie Leibovitz

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

— Paula Scher

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

— Laurie Anderson

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of…

— Loretta Lux