Announcing Quote by Gertrude Kasebier

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

— Helmut Newton

Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad…

— Tina Modotti

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

— Katie Goodnough

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let…

— Ernst Haas

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

— Heinrich Heine

I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively.

— Andrea Suarez Paz

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with…

— Freya Stark

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

— Ernst Haas

There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there…

— Lawrence Weiner

“Photography wasn’t even considered part of the art world until fairly recently. I find it ironic that some people in the world of fine-art…

— Richard Olsenius