Art Quote by Jean-Marc Bustamante

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I…

— Josef Sudek

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

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a…

— Stephen Shore

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

— Peter Lindbergh

[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture…

— Vito Acconci

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

— Ansel Adams

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

— Chuck Berry

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art…

— Charles Baudelaire

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would…

— Stephen Sprouse

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

— Ruth Bernhard

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

— Ernst Haas