Art Quote by David Bate

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 cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams

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

— Ruth Bernhard

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

— Auguste Rodin

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

— John Baldessari

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

— Martin Parr

“We are all part of the history of photography...”

— Wendy Erickson

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the…

— Berenice Abbott

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

— Lauren Greenfield

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

— Cornell Capa

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke