Donate Quote by Steven Klein

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

— Julian Schnabel

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their…

— Ben Shahn

I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to…

— Sigmar Polke

I had been teaching myself photography.

— Ree Drummond

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own…

— Steven Klein

When I became a photographer, I took Mums talent for granted. She would take pictures out the car window and then they became these…

— Mary McCartney

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to…

— Ben Shahn

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

— Imogen Cunningham

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in…

— Richard Gere