Art Quote by William Wegman

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now…

— Lewis Baltz

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

— Jean-Marc Bustamante

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I…

— Josef Sudek

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or…

— David Hockney

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though…

— Ezra Stoller

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

— Ansel Adams

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

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

— John Gutmann

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

— Auguste Rodin

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

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an…

— Berenice Abbott