Quotes About Photography

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

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

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

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

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

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

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

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

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

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.