Art Quote by Susan Sontag

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so…

— Clement Greenberg

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something…

— Susan Sontag

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

— John Berger

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

— Dennis Oppenheim

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a…

— Yukio Mishima

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler

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

— Ruth Bernhard

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy