Collages Quote by William S. Burroughs

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

— Robert Motherwell

Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see…

— Elliott Hundley

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation… photographing has become the visual equivalent of…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion…

— Martin Parr

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

— Susan Sontag

“I’ve got lots of pictures of the four years I spent in collage.”

— Jarod Kintz

To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to…

— David Wojnarowicz

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the…

— Aaron Siskind

The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated -…

— Leon Golub

... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself, but it's…

— Robert Barry