Art Quote by Auguste Rodin

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

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course…

— Ansel Adams

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

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

— Chuck Close

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

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.

— David Cage

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has…

— Peter Schjeldahl

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because…

— David Bailey

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

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

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein