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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
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.
— Alexander Rodchenko
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
— Andre Bazin
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
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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
I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
— Don McCullin
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
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
— Susan Sontag
But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing! — Philip Larkin
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
— Christophe Agou
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
There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.
— Manuel Alvarez Bravo
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
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 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
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
— Thomas F. Wilson
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
— Mike MacDonald
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
— Pamela Hanson
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
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.
— Thomas Leuthard
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
Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
— Edward Steichen
The camera basically is a license to explore.
— Jerry N. Uelsmann
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
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
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I love photography, and I love the art of photography.
— Helen Mirren
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
There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.
— Sontag, Susan
