Robert Rauschenberg
[Artist, b. 1925, Port Arthur, Texas, d. 2008, Captiva Island, Florida.]
You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.
Anders Petersen
[Photographer, b. 1944, Solna, Sweden, lives in Stockholm.]
To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.
Larry Clark
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1943, Tulsa, Oklahoma, lives in New York.]
At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.
Frederick Sommer
[Photographer, b. 1905, Angri, Italy, d. 1999, Prescott, Arizona.]
Life is the most durable fiction that matter has yet come up with and art is the structure of matter as life’s most durable fiction.
Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
Roman Opalka
[Artist, b. 1931, Hocquincourt, France, d. 2011, Rome.]
Art has a lot in common with madness. After all, why should one get involved with art? You can live normally like everyone else—which is to say, as stupidly as everyone else.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
[Photographer, b. 1902, Mexico City, d. 2002, Mexico City.]
I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.
Maggie Steber
[Photographer, b. 1949, born in Electra, Texas, lives in Miami, Florida.]
Every time we click the shutter, it’s like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It’s a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.
