Best 9 quotes of Roy Decarava on MyQuotes

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.