Woody Guthrie Quotes

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

I like to think of an image as different from a photo.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

I want my music to do the explaining.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!