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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

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. — Ivan Klima

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

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

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. — Diane Arbus

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

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

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

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest. — Peter Lindbergh

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

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer. — Steven Pinker

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

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work. — John Updike

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

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art. — Ruth Bernhard

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

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

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question. — Ernst Haas

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

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

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 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

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. — Heinrich Heine

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. — James Gray

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