Abstract Quote by Ralph Gibson

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

— Gerhard Richter

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

— Robert Ryman

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there,…

— Chuck Close

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

— William Eggleston

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

— Henry Adams

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and…

— Wynn Bullock

I have gradually confused photography with life.

— Jerry Uelsmann

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

— Lisa Joy

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

— Richard Kalvar

I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.

— Bob Anderson