Art Quote by Joan Fontcuberta

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

— Ruth Bernhard

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 more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.…

— Peter C Bunnell

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in…

— Richard Avedon

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

— Robertson Davies

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

It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality, and the…

— Isabel Allende