Art Quote by Brett Weston

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots.…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him…

— Brooks Atkinson

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

“Just like a painter’s brush or a sculptor’s chisel, you camera is a tool to create artwork. The camera does not take the photo,…

— Barbara Steinhoff Schneider

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

— George Bernard Shaw

The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

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 instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point…

— Margaret Bourke-White

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

— Edward Weston

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

— Conrad Hall