Art Quote by John Baldessari

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

— Jack Welpott

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

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

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

— David Bate

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 see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke

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

— John Lanchester

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

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

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

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

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history…

— Herb Ritts