Art Quote by Sherwood Anderson

“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. The fools who write articles about me think that…

— Sherwood Anderson

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the…

— Charles Baudelaire

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

— Sally Mann

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

— Robert Henri

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would,…

— Henri Matisse

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

— Ethan Hawke

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

— Alberto Giacometti

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may…

— Edward Weston

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

— Jean-Marc Bustamante