Art Quote by Walker Evans

When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police…

— Walker Evans

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as…

— Allan Sekula

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

— Upton Sinclair

The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's…

— Frank Gohlke

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic…

— Aaron Siskind

All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

— George Orwell

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

— Walker Evans

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

— John F. Kennedy

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false…

— Edgar Degas

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by…

— Martha Rosler

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying…

— Paul Rotha