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“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because…

— Plato

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

— Pablo Picasso

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always compare…

— Eric Kandel

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

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

— Susan Sontag

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

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

To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,…

— Alexandra David-Neel