Able Quote by Luigi Ghirri

A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding…

— Wendell Pierce

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in…

— Victor Burgin

The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it…

— Egon Friedell

“The nature of a work of art is to be not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world but a world…

— A.C. Bradley

“The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores me. It…

— Fernando Pessoa

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

— Ayn Rand

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making…

— Mark Alan Stamaty

My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding…

— Yaacov Agam

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the…

— Franz Kafka

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited…

— Debbie Ford

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create…

— Andrei Tarkovsky