I do not think there is any question of photography being…

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

— Ernst Haas

“But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can…

— Susan Sontag

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course…

— 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

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is…

— Gore Vidal

“A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different…

— Clive Scott

Sven Schumann did an interview with photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin addressing the question: What is photography today when everyone is a photographer? These…

— Olivier Zahm

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

— Galen Rowell

I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was…

— Tibor Kalman

Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But…

— Helmut Newton

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

— Ansel Adams

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 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.

— A. D. Coleman

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

— Mia Wasikowska

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

— Helmut Newton