"Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life."

-- Robert Adams

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.”
“By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.”
“I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.”
“We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people”
“The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members.”
“The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.”
“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
“I loved The Wind in the Willows. ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament.”

You may also like:

Alec Soth
Photographer
Ansel Adams
Photographer
Joel Sternfeld
Photographer
Lee Friedlander
Photographer
Lewis Baltz
Visual artist
Robert Frank
Photographer
Stephen Shore
Photographer
William Eggleston
Photographer
Bernd Becher
Conceptual Artist