Quotes About Photography

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

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

What I'm good at is making art.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

Rita Haywood gave good face.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

I use whatever media I think will best express my ideas and therefore I don't have a lot invested in the idea of photography specifically. I am more interested in Art.

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.