Art Quote by Edward Lucie-Smith

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the…

— Bill Henson

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

“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to…

— Geoff Dyer

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of…

— John Berger

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

— A. D. Coleman

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on…

— Andy Goldsworthy

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the…

— Charles Baudelaire

“One who argues that photography is not art, only looks at the photograph, they do not look into its meaning”

— Katie Goodnough

“But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can…

— Susan Sontag

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would,…

— Henri Matisse

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

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch