Art Quote by Craig Owens

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof…

— Ernst Haas

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

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

— Ansel Adams

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa

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

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

— Martha Rosler