Complexes Quote by Thomas Struth

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a…

— Stephen Shore

I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of…

— Grant Mudford

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

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

— William Klein

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

— August Sander

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

— Joel-Peter Witkin

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 want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time,…

— Alexander Rodchenko

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

— Sophia Amoruso

My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the…

— Harry Callahan

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

— Janet Malcolm