Art Quote by John Updike

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the…

— Charles Negre

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes…

— Michael Snow

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a…

— Yukio Mishima

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so…

— Clement Greenberg

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

Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem…

— Geoffrey Batchen

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

— Ruth Bernhard

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the…

— Charles Baudelaire

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

— Ansel Adams

Art is a continuum.

— Daryl Hall

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically]…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them…

— Berenice Abbott