Art Quote by Ryan McGinley

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often…

— Aaron Scharf

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

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third…

— Ryan McGinley

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

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only…

— Warren MacKenzie

I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

I picked up photography in high school.

— Diana Silvers

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

— Iris Apfel

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it…

— Richard Avedon