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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

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one.

— Hemistich

“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two. - 1959, from…

— Robert Rauschenberg

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

— Lucian Freud

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

— Chuck Close

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO

“If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you”

— Shannon Dermott

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities…

— Lucian Freud

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of…

— Joel Sternfeld