20th century Quote by Cynthia Daignault

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

— John Gutmann

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to…

— Stephen Beal

[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning…

— Thomas Struth

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

— John Lanchester

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

— William Klein

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of…

— Edward Burtynsky

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth.…

— Vik Muniz