The photographer can arrange his picture just as the…

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to…

— Annie Dillard

“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and…

— Janet Flanner

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a…

— Joni Mitchell

“Mothers are artists, in their way, wouldn’t you say? They’re like symphony conductors of entire lives. They’re painters or sculptors. And not only is…

— Louie Anderson

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does…

— Loretta Lux

Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as…

— Leonardo da Vinci

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody…

— Oscar Wilde

I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval,…

— Anton Yelchin

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

— Susan Sontag

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some…

— Aaron Scharf

I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My…

— Romero Britto

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

— Pablo Picasso

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things.…

— David Bailey

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat