“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”— James Baldwin
“I work on a canvas until I think it is finished. I paint a picture and then I just leave it alone.”— Milton Avery
“Architecture is not a science. It is a great historical procession. It is an art, a game of forms and volumes.”— Alvar Aalto
“There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”— Berenice Abbott
“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”— M. H. Abrams
“The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.”— Ansel Adams
“Audiences are less intrigued by the great masterpieces of the past than by the new, the novel, the revolutionary.”— Robert Aldrich
“The painter's eye is to him a microscope. He may see the world in a grain of sand.”— Washington Allston
“A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.”— Berenice Abbott