Art Quote by Ansel Adams

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

— Ansel Adams

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I…

— Josef Sudek

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

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

— Peter Lindbergh

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry.…

— Trevor Paglen

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

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

— Auguste Rodin

“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

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something…

— Man Ray

... 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

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let…

— Ernst Haas

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often…

— Aaron Scharf