Quotes of: Andy Keyword

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Edward Tufte

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Edward Weston

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

Edward Weston

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Frank Gehry

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

Chris Hondros

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Claes Oldenburg

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

Claes Oldenburg

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

Helmut Newton

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

Imogen Cunningham

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Imogen Cunningham

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Irving Penn

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Edward Burtynsky

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

Ben Nicholson

The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.

Brian Skerry

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.

Galen Rowell

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

Helena Christensen

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

Hanneli Mustaparta

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

James Nachtwey

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Jock Sturges

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Joel Sternfeld