Art Quote by Rondal Partridge

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

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could…

— James A. Michener

“AN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR”

— Henry David Thoreau

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

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.

— Peter Lindbergh

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

— Auguste Rodin

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

— Jock Sturges

My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He…

— Jeff Vespa

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

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

— Ruth Bernhard

My first ever A was in photography.

— Dylan Llewellyn

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

— Richard Avedon