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A future that works is about what happens next. We need to enable ALL young people to see opportunity, not be stifled by austerity. My slogan is "All schools should be art schools". Not very witty perhaps, but to the point.

Bob & Roberta Smith a Bob and Roberta Smith: Why I'm making an art protest to Michael Gove a The Guardian

I think what annoys people about professional photography is that we all know pretty much anyone can do it, whereas painting (especially non-abstract landscapes) is really very technical and requires a lot of training and hard work.

I have literally hundreds of photographs that look like Richard Billingham's "Hedgerow" and so does everyone else, but they are snaps not art because they haven't been endorsed by the art community, and they haven't been endorsed by the art community because I do not know anyone in the art community. Because anyone can take photographs like this, they require a sort of baptism by the art elite and then that particular photographer is "an artist" and his works are now post-baptism, "art".

My photographs are good. This is because my father was a professional photographer and I had an SLR in my hands when I was five, and knew how top develop my own films when I was still at primary school. I am not a professional, but I know that if I decided to become one I would fail in my bid because it is not about the quality of photographs but the quality of your contacts in the art world, and I simply could not be bothered to kiss all those arses.

greatdivide a Photography: is it art? (Comentari) a The Guardian