Art Quote by Manuel Alvarez Bravo Download Open image “There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.” — Manuel Alvarez Bravo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Capacity Democratic Photography
Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. — Philip Jones Griffiths 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
I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography. — Jean-Marc Bustamante Copy Share Image
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo 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
