Iconic Images Quotes

Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really.

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate way that a huge pop tune hits you in the face.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.

For me, being able to say that my first-ever photo shoot was with one of the most well-known and iconic fashion photographers in the world is unbelievable.

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

I love Christy Turlington in the '80s and '90s. Classic.

My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties.

Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller.

American 'Vogue' and the Versace campaign by Richard Avedon were huge for me. It put me on the map.

You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.

There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

I would love to work with Mario Testino. I respect all the work he has done and is doing.

I'm the lucky lady that was asked to be in those wonderful iconic pieces.

Though Geographic didn't publish that photo in the story that it was done for, "The Life of Charlie Russell," a cowboy artist in Montana. But later, maybe a year and a half ago, they named it one of the 50 greatest pictures ever made at National Geographic.