Bruce Davidson
[Photographer, b. 1933, Oak Park, Illinois, lives in New York.]
I burn intensely, but with a slow flame, like an acetylene torch. What keeps you going is the passion that you have.
Ray Metzker
[Photographer, b. 1931, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, d. 2014, Philadelphia.]
I don’t need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you’re like to discover.
Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]
You bring to photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Larry Sultan
[Photographer, b. 1946, Brooklyn, New York, d. 2009, Greenbrae, California.]
Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy’s jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image—all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.
David Hockney
[Artist, b. 1937, Bradford, England, lives in Bridlington, Yorkshire; London; and Los Angeles.]
I came to Los Angeles for two reasons: The first was a photo by Julius Shulman of Case Study House #21, and the other was [Atheletic Model Guild?s]?s Physique Pictorial.
Saul Leiter
[Photographer, b. 1923, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 2013, New York.]
I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.
John Baldessari
[Artist, b. 1931, National City, California, lives in Venice, California.]
I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.
Brian Duffy
[Photographer, b. 1933, London, d. 2010, London.]
I thought, Gawd this looks dead easy compared to the drawing lark. I’ll give this a whiz. Take up photography as an easy way to make money. Just my sort of thing—women, gadgets, clothes—I must have a go at it.