Art Quote by David LaChapelle

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

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

— John Baldessari

I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art.…

— Gavin Turk

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

— John Gutmann

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he…

— Imogen Cunningham

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

— Chuck Berry

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

— Jack Welpott

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

— Sigmar Polke

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

— Damien Hirst

I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my language. What…

— Paul Rusconi

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

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

— Peter Lindbergh