Art Quote by Van Deren Coke

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In…

— Aaron Scharf

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

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared…

— Van Deren Coke

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

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

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

— Auguste Rodin

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their…

— Jessie Tarbox Beals

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in…

— John Szarkowski

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

— Beaumont Newhall

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

— Susan Sontag