Art Quote by Wolfgang Tillmans

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

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 virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him…

— Brooks Atkinson

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

— Diana Vreeland

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments,…

— Brett Weston

Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will…

— Michael Kenna

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

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 is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to…

— Edward Weston