Art Quote by Peter Lindbergh

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

— Auguste Rodin

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course…

— Ansel Adams

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.

— David Cage

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston

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

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like…

— William Eggleston

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

— Jean-Marc Bustamante

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

— Pieter Hugo

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In…

— Aaron Scharf