Kermit the Frog
[Muppet and Philosopher, b. 1955, WRC-TV, Washington, D.C., lives in Hollywood.]
How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
George Carlin
[Comedian and social critic, b. 1937, New York, d. 2008, Santa Monica, California.]
I don’t own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.
William Wegman
[Artist, b. 1943, Holyoke, Massachusetts, lives in New York.]
As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.
Tallulah Bankhead
[Actress, b. 1902, Huntsville, Alabama, d. 1968, New York.]
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Robert Doisneau
[Photographer, b. 1912, Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, France, d. 1994, Montrouge, France.]
For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.
Dorothy Parker
[Writer, b. 1893, West End, New Jersey, d. 1967, New York.]
When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
Elliott Erwitt
[Photographer, b. 1928, Paris, France, lives in New York.]
It’s about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
Mariana Yampolsky
[Photographer, b. 1925, Chicago, d. 2002, Mexico City.]
Often my best photographs are the ones I didn’t take.
