Vik Muniz Quotes

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

Photographing a cake can be art.

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

I just like pictures and visuals and stuff.

I'm aware of other artists, but what I'm really most interested in is viewing individual pictures. I like dramatic pictures.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.

I paint paintings of people.

I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.

You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's virile, acquired power. Actually though, it isn't that. We are really fishermen with hooks and lines.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.