Art Quote by Manuel Alvarez Bravo

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during…

— George Saunders

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will…

— John Szarkowski

I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what they see.…

— Connie Wanek

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the…

— Helen Levitt

Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he…

— Romare Bearden

An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his…

— Anton Chekhov

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.…

— Peter C Bunnell

The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern…

— Andreas Feininger

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great…

— Piet Mondrian