Art Quote by Charles Baudelaire

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams

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

“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

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

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 photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on…

— Andy Goldsworthy

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

— Ruth Bernhard

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

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes…

— Michael Snow