Visual Arts Quotes

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

If I had another ten years, or even another five, I could have become a true painter.

I am a photographer, and I am interested in the movement of animals and humans.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

I would say to any artist: Don't be an artist until you can't help it.

Pick a theme and work it to the death - no matter what the theme is, work it to the death. You can't do anything else. You have to be absorbed in it.

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The camera is my instrument. The world is my subject. My work is my statement.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I am driven to make things beautiful. I don't care how I do it.

I'm trying to make other people look at themselves.

I paint what I see, not what others see.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I don't really care about the art world. I care about art.

I like the idea of taking something that's very familiar and making it unfamiliar.

Art is not about making things, it's about making sense.

I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and I saw an opportunity to make a historical record.

Art is the signature of civilization.

To be a sculptor, you must be a poet, a philosopher, a politician, a scientist, a craftsman, and a dreamer.

I belong to the generation that was born with the machine.