Robert Mapplethorpe
[Photographer, b. 1946, Floral Park, Long Island, d. 1989, Boston, Massachusetts.]
Perfection means you don’t question anything about the photograph.
Robert Rauschenberg
[Artist, b. 1925, Port Arthur, Texas, d. 2008, Captiva Island, Florida.]
I’m quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it’s not necessarily my intention.
William Klein
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, lives in Paris.]
I had neither training nor complexes. By necessity and choice, I decided that anything would have to go. A technique of no taboos: blur, grain, contrast, cock-eyed framing, accidents, whatever happens.
Sally Mann
[Photographer, b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia, lives in Lexington.]
Stop trying to get it right. Just take the picture.
Eugène Delacroix
[Artist, b. 1798, Charenton-St.Maurice, France, d. 1863, Paris.]
[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.
Corinne Day
[Photographer, b. 1962, Ealing, West London, d. 2010, Denham, England.]
The ‘grunge look’, as my style was called, simply showed girls as they really are, without make-up, styled hair, flattering light.
Boris Mikhailov
[Photographer, b. 1938, Kharkov, Ukraine, lives in Kharkov and Berlin.]
I was always against good technique because it didn’t work with Soviet life. Good quality equals foreign life.
Robert Mapplethorpe
[Photographer, b. 1946, Floral Park, Long Island, d. 1989, Boston, Massachusetts.]
My whole point is to transcend the subject… go beyond the subject somehow, so that the composition, the lighting, all around, reaches a certain point of perfection.
