Art Quote by John Rothenstein

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

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

— Auguste Rodin

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

— Kenneth Clark

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 is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry.…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

— Sam Abell

Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also…

— Douglas Crimp

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

— Edward Weston

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth.…

— Vik Muniz

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama