Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.
Clement GreenbergArt is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.
Clement GreenbergI myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.
Clement Greenberg