Argument Quote by Edward Weston

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine…

— Edward Weston

“A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there…

— Jostein Gaarder

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must…

— Yukio Mishima

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

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an…

— Sadakichi Hartmann

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

— Seneca the Younger

“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual artist notices…

— David Bayles

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally,…

— Bill Viola

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