Closest Quote by Marina Abramovic

I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to…

— David Salle

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

— Thomas Struth

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

— Orlan

If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one…

— Thomas Struth

I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism…

— E. J. Hughes

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

— Margaret Atwood

I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it…

— Idris Khan

In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that…

— Mary Ellen Mark

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek…

— Dawoud Bey

My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces were ways…

— Vito Acconci

One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.

— Mary Quant