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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
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
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
— Charles Baudelaire
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
— Edward Weston
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
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
— Cornell Capa
Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.
— John Cassavetes
I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.
— Clement Greenberg
Art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
— Robert Adams
Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.
— Peter Lindbergh
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
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
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
— Roland Barthes
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.
— Alexander Rodchenko
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
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A photograph is a biography of a moment.
— Art Shay
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
— Ansel Adams
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
— Susan Sontag
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
— Helmut Newton
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)
— Auguste Rodin
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 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
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
— Ansel Adams
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
— Mike MacDonald
Photography is the art of not pushing the button.
— Frank Horvat
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
— Cindy Sherman
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
— Harry Callahan
I love photography, and I love the art of photography.
— Helen Mirren
There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.
— Sontag, Susan
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
— Charles Negre
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality
— Daido Moriyama
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
— Irving Penn
You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.
— Nobuyoshi Araki
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
— Ernst Haas
Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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 was always interested in photography and other forms of art.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.
— Chase Jarvis
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
