Eras Quote by Andre Derain

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures…

— Fay Godwin

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

— Auguste Rodin

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

— Paul Strand

I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way…

— John Pfahl

Photorealism was this fantastic movement in like the late '60s and '70s, because photography finally became something that everyone could produce. Photorealism was and…

— Damian Loeb

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

— Mel Bochner

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the…

— Berenice Abbott

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was…

— Martin Parr

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the…

— David Hockney

I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the…

— Jamel Shabazz

What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and…

— George Bernard Shaw

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson