Art Quote by Susan Wiggs

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

— John Berger

“Photographs are just light and time,”

— John Green

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

— Keith Carter

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

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama

“Photography is the play of light, the dance of shadows, the song of exposure, and the story of the moment.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

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

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

— Auguste Rodin

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives…

— Peter Schjeldahl

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past,…

— Peter Wollen

“One who argues that photography is not art, only looks at the photograph, they do not look into its meaning”

— Katie Goodnough