History Quote by Jack Welpott

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

— John Baldessari

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s…

— David LaChapelle

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike…

— Susan Sontag

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

— John Lanchester

My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm…

— James Nares

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

— John Gutmann

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium…

— John Dyer

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa

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