Able Quote by Hans Bellmer

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

— Kenneth Clark

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

— William S. Burroughs

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

— Bill Brandt

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of…

— Joel Sternfeld

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry.…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography threatens fantasy.

— Taryn Simon

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

— Martin Parr

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a…

— Fred Ritchin

In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May…

— George Grosz

I think a way that feminist photographers work is turning what was the object into the subject and really making it our own.

— Petra Collins

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

— Andre Bazin