Art Quote by Charles Baudelaire

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now…

— Lewis Baltz

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

— Ruth Bernhard

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is…

— Alfred Stieglitz

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

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

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

— Ansel Adams

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

— Ansel Adams

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

— Peter Lindbergh

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

— Helmut Newton

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke