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"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six."
Alexander Calder

"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."
Alexander Calder

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams

"When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track."
Arthur Fellig

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
Auguste Rodin

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
Amy Lowell

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
Andre Gide

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
Ansel Adams

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Ambrose Bierce

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
Ansel Adams

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
Andy Warhol

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
Andy Warhol

"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."
Andy Warhol

"I like boring things."
Andy Warhol

"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
Andy Warhol

"I am a deeply superficial person."
Andy Warhol

"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
Ansel Adams

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
Ansel Adams

"I paint with shapes."
Alexander Calder

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