Art Quote by Van Deren Coke

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what…

— A. D. Coleman

Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning…

— Lewis Baltz

Artistes never make their image. Image is made by the fans and the artiste's job is to fight that perception.

— Badshah

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me,…

— Martin Mull

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

— Trevor Paglen

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

— Robert Genn

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of…

— Jon Pareles

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

— Patti Smith