Art Quote by William Eggleston

My relationship to photography growing up was like, the idea of photojournalism or newspapers - it's far less art or marketing. It was more…

— RaMell Ross

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows.…

— Duane Michals

As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything…

— Anonymous

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

— Janet Malcolm

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

— Peter Lindbergh

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

In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane…

— Burton Silverman

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was…

— Martin Parr

I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I…

— Michael Light

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

— Saul Leiter

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to…

— Howard Hodgkin

My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He…

— Jeff Vespa