1,962 Quotes About Photography

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.