Able Quote by Vilmos Zsigmond

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

— Patti Smith

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I…

— Leonard Nimoy

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh…

— Andy Summers

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could…

— James A. Michener

One of my favorite photographers is Ruvan Wijesooriya, who takes most of the LCD photos. His work is incredibly colloquial and raw.

— James Murphy

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.

— Peter Lindbergh

A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking…

— Vic Mensa

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented…

— Joe Average

Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take each viewer…

— Ariana Richards

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

As far as visual artists, I find inspiration in Henri Rousseau, who painted amazing, dream-like junglescapes without ever leaving France, and who sort of…

— Christopher Moore