Art Quote by Frank Horvat

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave…

— Alec Soth

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's…

— Alec Soth

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

— Ruth Bernhard

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

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

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can…

— Gerardo Suter

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

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

— Ansel Adams

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker