Art Quote by Ma Jian

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

— Richard Phillips

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

— Judy Dater

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step…

— Neil Strauss

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

— Leonard Nimoy

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age…

— John Dyer

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition…

— Ben Shahn

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

— Thelma Golden

My art became very public.

— Joey Skaggs

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

— Anonymous

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists…

— Brooke Shields

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He…

— Lasse Hallstrom