Circumstances Quote by Robert Heinecken

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word…

— Anonymous

An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using…

— Robert Heinecken

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the…

— Milton Avery

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

— Don Watson

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

— Johan Huizinga

Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not trying to…

— Alex Webb

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

— Robert Heinecken

Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the…

— Gerhard Richter

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

— John Szarkowski

The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the…

— Mary Ellen Mark