Art Quote by Jean-Francois Chevrier

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In…

— Aaron Scharf

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

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

— John Baldessari

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

“Photography theory is most often situated between art history, film theory, and communication studies”

— David Bate

Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives…

— Peter Schjeldahl

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 don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

“We are all part of the history of photography...”

— Wendy Erickson

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 is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan