Diane Arbus
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 1971, New York.]
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that’s what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
André Kertész
[Photographer, b. 1894, Budapest, Hungary, d. 1985, New York.]
Look, if you want to learn how to write, you study the alphabet and exercise every day. And in the end you have a very beautiful alphabet. But what are you expressing with the alphabet? Perfect technique but expressing nothing. This is what I call “calligraphic photographs á l’americaine.”
John Baldessari
[Artist, b. 1931, National City, California, lives in Venice, California.]
What got me interested in found imagery was that it was not considered art, but just imagery, and I began dumpster diving in photo shops.
Diane Arbus
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 1971, New York.]
I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
August Sander
[Photographer, b. 1876, Herdorf, Germany, d. 1964, Cologne.]
Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.
Dziga Vertov
[Artist and filmmaker, b. 1896, Bialystok, d. 1954, Moscow.]
I take from one person the strongest and deftest hands, from another I take the strongest and swiftest legs, from a third the most beautiful and expressive head and I create a new, perfect man in montage.
Blaise Cendrars
[Writer and poet, b. 1887, Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, d. 1961, Paris.]
Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.
Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
