Born Quote by Robert Mapplethorpe

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

— Ben Whishaw

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing…

— Ben Shahn

I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the Art Institute…

— Robert Indiana

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or…

— David Hockney

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

— Marcey Jacobson

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

— Anonymous

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

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an…

— Berenice Abbott

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

— Dennis Oppenheim