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My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history. — Mathew Brady

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood. — Edvard Munch

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title. — Peter Lindbergh

God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness. — Mark Denman

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree. — Annie Lennox

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. — Susan Sontag

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. — Cornell Capa

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art. — Clement Greenberg

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful. — Bill Jay

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul. — Marius Vieth

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. — Ray Harryhausen

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver. — Kodak Eastman

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image. — Craig Owens

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age. — Alexander Rodchenko

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. — Paul Gauguin

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do. — Gianni Versace

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. — Ansel Adams

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. — William Landay

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) — Auguste Rodin

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love. — Louis Faurer

Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it. — Sahara Sanders

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. — John Rothenstein

I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that. — Georgia May Jagger

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art. — Sigmar Polke

But O, Photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing! — Philip Larkin

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. — Wassily Kandinsky

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make. — Chase Jarvis

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits,
necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. — Alexander Rodchenko

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both. — John Baldessari

I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information. — Don McCullin

I love photography, and I love the art of photography. — Helen Mirren

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me. — Thomas Leuthard

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious. — Pamela Hanson

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. — Thomas F. Wilson