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

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

— David Hockney

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

— Keith Carter

The best photographers know how to light any color skin.

— Edward Enninful

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried…

— Robert Adams

And that's just a terrifying and terrifying thing. And all the photographers and, you know, it's a different, unnatural setting that no one can…

— Debra Messing

...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

“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history.…

— Chris Killip

I was in the right place at the right time.

— Mel Allen

“We are all part of the history of photography...”

— Wendy Erickson