Art Quote by Kenneth Clark

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

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

— Edward Ruscha

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

— Chuck Close

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

— Patti Smith

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

— Auguste Rodin

The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic…

— Andre Breton

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

— John Rothenstein

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

— John Rothenstein

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

— Jean-Luc Godard

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

— Mel Bochner

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

— John Lanchester

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress