Insights: Art Buyers on Stock Photos

• 74% of art buyers admit they must sometimes sacrifice quality for price due to budgets and the need to refresh images often.

Insights: Art Buyers on Stock Photos

• The average photo search takes 4.25 hours.

Insights: Art Buyers on Stock Photos

• 78% of art buyers have a subscription with at least one stock photo agency.  The exception is advertisers who need a pay-per-image option to be able to bill clients.

Jony Ive on Design - Industrial Designer

• "There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively."

Coco Chanel - Fashion Designer

• "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Charles Eames - Architect & Graphic Designer

• "Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

Frank Lloyd Wright - Architect & Designer

• "Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

Manolo Blahnik - Shoe Designer

• "I have to edit myself sometimes, because I’ve got millions of fantasies.."

Harry Bartoia - Sculpture

• "The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living"

David Yoffie - HBS Professor

• "Gates was able to envision a world in which there was a computer on every desk at a time when personal computers didn't exist."

David Yoffie - HBS Professor

• "Grove foresaw the eventual break up of the vertically integrated computer industry."

David Yoffie - HBS Professor

• "Jobs saw a future in which consumers would move beyond the computer to use a range of electronic devices for entertainment and communication and then systematically rolled them out one step at a time"

Harvard Business School Press

• If you want to know what “collective genius” can look like, watch a Pixar film...  Pixar has thrived because it has never stopped innovating.

Lady Gaga - Artist & Performer

• “The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don’t ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you."

Tony Fadell - Founder, Nest

• "If you’re not having doubt, then you’re not pushing it hard enough, or you’re not looking at the details close enough."

Alfred Stieglitz - Photographer

• "In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."

Albert Einstein

• "Creativity is intelligence having fun."

Anne Geddes  - Photographer

• "The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed."

Anne Geddes  - Photographer

• "I think that emotional content is an image’s most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.."

Henri Cartier Bresson  - Photographer

• "To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."

Robert Frank - Photographer

• "The eye should learn to listen before it looks."

Ansel Adams - Photographer

• "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."