“Questioning the idea of Art with a capital ‘A’, photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”

The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower,

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years.

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates.

Neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.”

Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art – when it is in the hands of artists.”

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science.

In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students,

Deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists.

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media

It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.

Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.

The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.