Art Quote by Alexey Brodovitch

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

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

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives…

— Peter Schjeldahl

The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized.…

— Gertrude Kasebier

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

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

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa

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

— Auguste Rodin

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is…

— Elisa Kreisinger

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

— Edward Ruscha

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them…

— Berenice Abbott

Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense,…

— E. J. Hughes