Abelardo Morell
[b. 1948, Havana, Cuba, lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.]
The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe—if you care to look with young eyes.
Sol LeWitt
[Artist and theorist, b. 1928, Hartford, Connecticut, d. 2007, New York.]
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
Susie Linfield
[Writer and critic, New York, lives in New York.]
It’s hard to resist the thought that a very large number of photography critics—including the most influential ones—don’t really like photographs, or the act of looking at them, at all.
Nan Goldin
[Photographer, b. 1953, Washington, D.C., lives in New York and Paris.]
Where is the line between life and photographing life?
Frederick Sommer
[Photographer, b. 1905, Angri, Italy, d. 1999, Prescott, Arizona.]
Art and accident are one. Art accepts what it finds.
Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
The world was already in the condition of art, waiting to be noticed as such. As Robert Irwin famously said, “I feel like a man sitting beside a river selling water.”
Martin Parr
[Photographer, b. 1952, Epson, Surrey, England, lives in Bristol and London, England.]
Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That’s the great thing about photography.
Rondal Partridge
[Photographer, b. 1917, San Francisco, d. 2015, Berkeley, California.]
So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed—fashion models, buildings, mountains—they get to thinking those photographs are good.
