Art Quote by Edward Steichen

Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it…

— Robert Gillis

I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.

— Bob Anderson

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

— Edward Steichen

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

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for…

— George Santayana

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or…

— David Hockney

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

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

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though…

— Ezra Stoller

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt