“I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you are trying to figure out how to rein it in.”
Kiki Smith
ANNA ATKINS
[Photographer, b. 1799, Tunbridge, Kent, England, d. 1871, Halstead, Essex, England.]
The difficulty of making accurate drawings of objects so minute as many of the Algae and Confervae has induced me to avail myself of Sir John Herschel’s beautiful process of Cyanotype, to obtain impressions of the plants themselves, which I have much pleasure in offering to my botanical friends. (1843, text accompanying the first photographically illustrated book, British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, authored by the Atkins, recognized as the first female photographer.)
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
There’s no retirement for an artist. It’s your way of living so there’s no end to it.
Bono
There is nothing in the nature of art or of the artist’s role that obligates the artist to produce innovative works. The demand for originality is an extrinsic pressure directed at the artist by society, rather than a constraint that is internal to the very concept of art. As a result, it is up to the artist to decide whether to acquiesce in this demand or not. By revealing this, far from throwing off the mantle of authorship, these artists have actually reaffirmed the artist’s ultimate authorial status.
Sherri Irvin
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If they did, they would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
Smoking The Ground by Declan Hoare 