Album cover Quote by Michael Dumontier

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

— St. Lucia

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

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

— Gillian Wearing

Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning…

— Lewis Baltz

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

— Steve Martin

As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the…

— Cornelia Parker

I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

— Marco Brambilla

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

— Willem de Kooning

One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my work is…

— Jack Pierson

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

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

And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but without dumbing…

— Grayson Perry