It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.