Books Quote by Wolfgang Tillmans

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

— Chuck Close

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good…

— John Gutmann

There is extensive critical scholarship that provides illustrations in many areas of scholarship. I've discussed many cases myself, while also citing and often relying…

— Noam Chomsky

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

— Thomas Kinkade

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

— James Nachtwey

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

— Peter Greenaway

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

— Chuck Close

Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze…

— Nadine Gordimer

Clarity is important. Part of what I'm trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential, as many…

— Kerry James Marshall

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

— Arnold Newman

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the…

— Milton Avery

What good are images if people understand them?

— Jon Stewart