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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

Alfred Stieglitz

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

Andres Serrano

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Andrew Wyeth

I'm trained to look for certain things... I shoot, I shoot, I shoot, and then I go find it in the ether.

Sante D'Orazio

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

Tim Walker

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

Urs Fischer

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

Ursus Wehrli

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Wilfred Burchett

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Walker Evans

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Walker Evans

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.

Wolfgang Tillmans

In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Even God forgives stupidity. So many married people, heaven would be a ghost town otherwise.

Yatin Patel

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

Alan Bean

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Andy Goldsworthy

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

Antony Gormley

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.

Anselm Kiefer

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

Barbara Kruger