Quotes of: Andy Keyword

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Jasper Johns

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

James Nachtwey

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

Jock Sturges

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Louise Bourgeois

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

Martin Kippenberger

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

William Albert Allard

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walead Beshty

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

William Quigley

Those that don't believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves.

Willard Wigan

Oh, right. She doesn’t know your secret identity.” Andy unzipped his sweatshirt and tossed it on a chair. “So, Meg Ryan just sent Tom Hanks a book but…” “No, Meg Ryan just sent NY152 a book, which was then overnighted to Tom Hanks, who li...

The Pepper in the Gumbo

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Diane Arbus Revelations

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.

Black Mirror

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Georg Baselitz

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

David Bailey

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

Warren De la Rue

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it about?' 'I don't know, but it was amazing!'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

Ted Allen

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

Bruce Nauman