I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.
Lewis BaltzAnyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.
Lewis BaltzI assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.
Lewis BaltzI never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist whose work was done in the medium of photography. It may be debatable to this day whether I ever succeeded in achieving that ambition, but the point is, I never had any uncertainty about that.
Lewis Baltz