Art Quote by Dan Graham

The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of…

— Siegfried Kracauer

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

— Dennis Oppenheim

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence…

— Walter Benjamin

The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

— Paul Auster

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

— Lewis Baltz

Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up…

— Steve Martin

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the…

— Paul Valery

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or…

— Anonymous

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

[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture…

— Vito Acconci