20th century Quote by David Bailey

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

“Photography wasn’t even considered part of the art world until fairly recently. I find it ironic that some people in the world of fine-art…

— Richard Olsenius

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In…

— Aaron Scharf

I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment…

— Russell James

What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at…

— Bryan Adams

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

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.…

— Kenneth Clark

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth.…

— Vik Muniz

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course…

— Ansel Adams

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

— Kenneth Clark

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without…

— Mona Kuhn