Art Quote by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

— Heinrich Heine

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must…

— Henri Matisse

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

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just…

— Berenice Abbott

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human…

— Zoe Leonard

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so…

— El Lissitzky

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof…

— Ernst Haas

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared…

— Van Deren Coke

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

— Ansel Adams