David Hockney
[Artist, b. 1937, Bradford, England, lives in Bridlington, Yorkshire; London; and Los Angeles.]
I came to Los Angeles for two reasons: The first was a photo by Julius Shulman of Case Study House #21, and the other was [Atheletic Model Guild?s]?s Physique Pictorial.
Josef Koudelka
[Photographer, b. 1938, Biskovice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, lives in Paris.]
When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, “Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer.”
John Sexton
[Photographer, b. 1953, Maywood, California, lives in California.]
Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That’s life!
Philippe Halsman
[Photographer, b. 1906, Riga, Latvia, d. 1979, New York.]
I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for money.
William Eggleston
[Photographer, b. 1939, Memphis, Tennessee, lives in Memphis.]
I don’t really look at other people’s photographs at all. It takes enough time to look at my own.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
Capa said to me: “Don’t keep the label of a surrealist photographer. Be a photojournalist. If not you will fall into mannerism. Keep surrealism in your little heart, my dear. Don’t fidget. Get moving!” This advice enlarged my field of vision.
Walker Evans
[Photographer, b. 1903, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1975, New Haven, Connecticut.]
Museums have a wonderful function, but there comes a time when the artist had better stay out of them, I think.
Diane Arbus
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 1971, New York.]
...invention is mostly this subtle, inevitable thing... I mean it comes from your nature, your identity. We've all got an identity. You can’t avoid it. It’s what’s left when you take everything else away. I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.