Art Quote by Stephen Shore

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

— Orlan

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

— Jean-Marc Bustamante

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

— Sophia Amoruso

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

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

— Janet Malcolm

Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I…

— Gerhard Richter

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would…

— Stephen Sprouse

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

— Cindy Sherman

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted…

— Rita Ora

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to…

— Justine Kurland

You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the…

— John Sexton