Bridges Quote by Albert Renger-Patzsch

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

— George Bernard Shaw

When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going…

— Grant Mudford

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how…

— Ernst Haas

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must…

— Henri Matisse

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

— Paul Gauguin

[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement…

— Walter Benjamin

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to…

— Stanley Cavell

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes…

— Michael Snow

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the…

— Charles Negre

The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed…

— Tina Modotti