The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sen….

I confess that Roy [Stryker] was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. H….

What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forg….

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited..

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even a….

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would pu….

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society..

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all prediction….

The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually th….

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black..

If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was go….

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance..

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enl….

The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations..

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works al….

The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation..

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which….

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality..

We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ….

Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its executio….

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake….