Digital Quote by Lev Manovich

The photograph annihilates the person.

— Siegfried Kracauer

Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become…

— Vilem Flusser

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The…

— Bernd Becher

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

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something…

— Frederick H. Evans

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Ruth Bernhard

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, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that…

— Frank Gohlke