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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
Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
— Shannon L. Alder
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.
— Philip Jones Griffiths
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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
Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!
— Ilyass Azaryouh
Words are more thoughts; the photographed images always
ends up having a romantic gloss about it
- no matter how I try to avoid it. — Robert Frank
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 get so confused about life photography art.
— William Wegman
Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.
— Kelly E. Lindner
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
— John Berger
Art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
— Robert Adams
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
— David Hockney
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
— Val Kilmer
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
— Heinrich Heine
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
— Annie Leibovitz
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
But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing! — Philip Larkin
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
Ome INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.
— Christina Westover
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
— Ansel Adams
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
— Ansel Adams
Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
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
Art is unpredictable.
— Joe Papagoda
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.
— Marius Vieth
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
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 took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
— Ray Harryhausen
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
— Ansel Adams
What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.
— Jillian Barberie
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.
— Thomas Leuthard
I love photography, and I love the art of photography.
— Helen Mirren
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
— Helmut Newton
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
The camera basically is a license to explore.
— Jerry N. Uelsmann
Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
— Edward Steichen
There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.
— Sontag, Susan
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
— Cindy Sherman
Photography is the art of not pushing the button.
— Frank Horvat
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
— Pamela Hanson
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
— Mike MacDonald
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
— Thomas F. Wilson
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
— Ansel Adams
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, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.
— Manuel Alvarez Bravo
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
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
— Frank Horvat
When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
— Ernst Haas
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
— Christophe Agou
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
— Susan Sontag
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.
— Chase Jarvis
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
I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
— Don McCullin
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
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality
— Daido Moriyama
