Anecdotes Quote by Pablo Picasso

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

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

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that…

— Jim Rowe

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting…

— David Byrne

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels…

— Cynthia Daignault

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

— Alexander Rodchenko

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to…

— Charles Baudelaire