Toni Morrison
[Writer, b. 1931, Lorain, Ohio, lives in Princeton, New Jersey.]
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Juergen Teller
[Photographer, b. 1964, Erlangen, Germany, lives in London.]
This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can’t escape it—TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It’s really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?
Pieter Hugo
[Photographer, b. 1976, Johannesburg, South Africa, lives in Cape Town.]
I don’t think art has a responsibility to be pretty.
Graham Nash
[Musician, photographer, and collector, b. 1942, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, lives in Encino, California.]
There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It’s just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.
Bill Cunningham
[Fashion photographer, b. 1929, Boston, Massachusetts, d. 2016, New York.]
I’m not drawn to something awful. I wouldn’t even see that. I’m looking for something that has beauty.
Slim Aarons
[Photographer, b. 1916, New York, d. 2006, Montrose, New York.]
Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places.
(Summary of his photographic career)
Ron Galella
[Photographer, b. 1931, Bronx, New York, lives in New York.]
My style is the paparazzi approach which is spontaneous, unrehearsed, off-guard. The beauty I’m after is inherent, more natural. Genuine emotions, real emotions, that’s what I look for.
Gregory Crewdson
[Photographer, b. 1962, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New Haven Connecticut.]
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
