Acceptance Quote by A. D. Coleman

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

— Heinrich Heine

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

— John Lanchester

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography…

— Marcel Duchamp

“Photography wasn’t even considered part of the art world until fairly recently. I find it ironic that some people in the world of fine-art…

— Richard Olsenius

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

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In…

— Aaron Scharf

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

— Ernst Haas

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

— Mel Bochner

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

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

— Auguste Rodin

It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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