Art Quote by Josef Sudek

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

— Peter Lindbergh

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

— Ansel Adams

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

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let…

— Ernst Haas

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

— Ernst Haas

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something…

— Man Ray

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

— Jean-Marc Bustamante

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though…

— Ezra Stoller

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or…

— David Hockney

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

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

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

— Helmut Newton